禅Keizan Jōkin

proverb

Record of the Transmission of Light

Denkōroku

Kamakura

Traditionally attributed

Text

I write this Record because the lamp must not be left in only one hand. Each face in the lineage held the lamp differently; only by writing them down do we see the family resemblance.

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Attribution

Lineage: Sōtō

By Keizan Jōkin

Sources

  • contentSōtō Zen in Medieval Japan

    William M. Bodiford

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