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“Dharma transmission” as a book category centers on the Zen/Chan/Seon Buddhist practice of formally recognizing and authorizing a student to teach within a lineage, preserving the continuity of the Dharma. It includes translations and studies of primary sources such as lamp records and lineage documents, explanations of rituals and materials (e.g., shiho, inka shomei, precepts), biographies and memoirs of teachers and heirs, and ethnographies of training, succession, and community life. The category also features comparative works across Sōtō, Rinzai, Ōbaku, Korean Seon, Chinese Chan, and Vietnamese Thiền, as well as accounts of transmission’s adaptation in Western contexts. Many titles examine debates about legitimacy, ethics, gender, and power in teacher–student relations, offering readers a mix of historical, doctrinal, institutional, and contemporary perspectives on how Buddhist authority is conferred and sustained.

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