Denkōroku (伝光録, "Record of the Transmission of the Light"), written by Keizan Jokin Zenji in 1300, is a kōan collection of 53 enlightenment stories based on the traditional legendary accounts of the Zen transmission between successive masters and disciples in the Sōtō Zen Buddhist lineage from Shakyamuni Buddha to Japanese Zen Master Ejō, a first generation Dharma heir to Dōgen Kigen Zenji, who first brought the Sōtō Zen teaching from China to Ja...
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Denkōroku (伝光録, "Record of the Transmission of the Light"), written by Keizan Jokin Zenji in 1300, is a kōan collection of 53 enlightenment stories based on the traditional legendary accounts of the Zen transmission between successive masters and disciples in the Sōtō Zen Buddhist lineage from Shakyamuni Buddha to Japanese Zen Master Ejō, a first generation Dharma heir to Dōgen Kigen Zenji, who first brought the Sōtō Zen teaching from China to Japan. The format for each koan account is in four parts: (1) the presentation of the koan case that is the enlightenment encounter between master and disciple, (2) a brief biographical account on the life of the disciple including background notes on the initial meeting between the master and the disciple, (3) a commentary on the koan, and (4) a verse summarizing the point made by the master and understood by the disciple.
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