鎮州臨濟慧照禪師語錄 1.15

1.15

Langye Jue transmitted to Letan Yue; Yue transmitted to Zhen of Piling; Zhen transmitted to Bai of Baishui; Bai transmitted to Dang of Tianning; Dang transmitted to Chun of Cizhao; Chun transmitted to Bao of Zhengzhou; Bao transmitted to Zang of Zhulin, Heng of Qingshou, and Jian of Shaolin. Heng of Qingshou transmitted to Bian of Dongping and Zhao of Taiyuan; Jian of Shaolin transmitted to Tong of Fawag; Tong transmitted to Jue of Anxian; Jue transmitted to Zhi of Nanjing and Yun of Xi'an; Zhi of Nanjing transmitted to Zhan of Shoufeng; Yun of Xi'an transmitted to Xuetang Ren—Xuetang being the eighteenth-generation descendant of Linji. There was none whose house style was not solitary and steep, their dynamic eloquence unrestrained, all being worthy descendants of the family, lamp passing flame to lamp straight down to the present; it can truly be said that the source is clear and the stream runs long—this is what it means.