Lineage of Hakuin Ekaku
Dharma transmission
Lineage of Hakuin Ekaku
12 teachers and ancestors, 6 students and descendants traced through transmission.
Hakuin Ekaku stands 18 generations from Xutang Zhiyu in the Rinzai line, receiving transmission from Shoju Rojin (1642–1721). The line above runs back through Yozan Keiyo, Gudo Toshoku, Shido Bunan and their predecessors to Xutang Zhiyu.
This line belongs to Rinzai. Every name below links to that master’s own record, with the sources for each transmission.
Line of succession to Hakuin Ekaku
The single line of formal transmission, root first. Where a master had several teachers this follows the one carrying the succession; the fuller set of ancestors is listed below.
Teachings attributed to Hakuin Ekaku
- After Satori, More Practice
- All Beings Are Originally Buddha
- Frog of Hakuin
- Great Doubt, Great Awakening
- Hell Is Made of Self
- Is That So?
- Keisō Dokuzui (Poison-Stamens of a Thicket of Thorns)
- Laypeople Can Awaken Too
- Letter to a Sick Monk on Introspective Practice
- Letter to Young Monks
- Meditation in Activity
- Not Knowing How Near the Truth Is
- Orategama (The Embossed Tea-Kettle)
- Soft-Butter Method
- Song of Zazen (Zazen Wasan)
- Sound of One Hand
- The Soft Butter Meditation (Orategama)
- Zazen Wasan (Song of Zazen)