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Contemplating with kindness, compassion, joy and giving, he rescues beings and transforms the triple-thousand worlds; those with and without affinities are equally gathered in so they leave suffering, attain bliss, and return to their origin.  --Ven. Master Hsuan Hua

If people with scattered minds enter stupas or temples, and say but once, "Namo Buddha," they have realized the Buddha Way. --Dharma Flower Sutra, Chapter 2: Expedient Devices  

- Song of Enlightenment by Great Master Yung Chia

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 The Lineage 

 
Original Teacher:  Shakyamuni Buddha

1st Patriarch:  the Venerable Mahakashyapa

Shakyamuni Buddha, in the midst of the millions of humans and gods who were circumambulating him, picked up a flower and Mahakashyapa, the First Patriarch, had to smile.  No one knew what was happening when Shakyamuni Buddha said,

"I have the Right Dharma Eye Treasury, the wonderful mind of Nirvana, the real mark, which is unmarked.  This is the mind-to-mind transmission, transmitted outside the teaching.  I have already given it to Mahakashyapa in mind-to-mind transmission."

Ven. Master Hua's Commentary to The Sixth Patriarch Sutra, Chapter Ten:  Final Instructions

28th Patriarch & 1st Patriarch in China:  the Venerable Bodhidharma

- The First Patriarch Bodhidharma brought the Dharma to China... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

- A lively account of the stories and teachings of the first six Patriarchs by Ven. Master Hua:

 

 

 

- by Great Master Yung Chia after being certified by the Sixth Patriarch:

 

 

 

 

29th Patriarch & 2nd Patriarch in China:  Great Master Hui K'o
30th Patriarch & 3rd Patriarch in China:  Great Master Seng Ts'an
31st Patriarch & 4th Patriarch in China:  Great Master Tao Hsin
32nd Patriarch & 5th Patriarch in China:  Great Master Hung Jen
33rd Patriarch & 6th Patriarch in China:  Great Master Hui Neng
 
"For 37 years he spoke Dharma to benefit sentient beings.  Forty-three people inherited his Dharma, and an uncountable number awoke to the Way...."  --The Sixth Patriarch Sutra
34th Patriarch:  Dhyana Master Huai Rang of Mount Nan
 
(Please note:  this list focuses only on the lineage of Wei Yang Sect.)
35th Patriarch:  Dhyana Master Ma Zhu Dao Yi
36th Patriarch:  Dhyana Master Bai Zhang Huai Hai

Wei Yang Sect
1st Generation of Wei Yang Sect:
Dhyana Master Ling Yo of Mount Wei

2nd Generation of Wei Yang Sect:

Dhyana Master Hui Ji of Mount Yang

 

3rd Generation of Wei Yang Sect:

Dhyana Master Xi Ta Guang Mu

 

4th Generation of Wei Yang Sect:

Dhyana Master Zi Fu Ru Bao

 

5th Generation of Wei Yang Sect:

Dhyana Master Bao Ci De Shao

 

6th Generation of Wei Yang Sect:

Dhyana Master San Jiao Zhi Qian

 

7th Generation of Wei Yang Sect:

Dhyana Master Xing Yang Ci Duo

 

8th Generation of Wei Yang Sect:

Dhyana Master De Qing Hsu Yun

 

9th Generation of Wei Yang Sect:

Dhyana Master Husan Hua Du Lun

In 1956, Dhyana Master Du Lun received the Dharma-transmission of Venerable Master Hsu Yun and the Dharma name "Hsuan Hua", becoming the Ninth Patriarch of the Wei Yang Sect, the 45th Generation since First Patriarch Mahakashyapa.

Verse in Expression of Faith from Dhyana Master Hus Yun:

Proclaiming [Hsuan] Wei's wonderful meaning,
Causes the sect's teaching to be echoed far and wide.
The transformations [Hua] inherited from Ling Peak
Exalt the Dharma Path.
Taking Across [Du] the forty-sixth,
The mind seal is transmitted.
The Wheel [Lun] revolves unceasingly,
Rescuing the suffering hordes.
 
"Year of the Buddha" 2983, the year Bingshen
Written by De Qing Hsu Yun, the Eighth Generation of the Wei Yang,
at the Dharma Lecture Hall of Zhenru [True Suchness] Chan Monastery
   
 
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