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The practice, understanding and transmission of Zen has been compared to holding a point in stillness by many of the Ancestors.

There were a total of 52 Ancestors in the Zen Buddhist Tradition of the Denkoroku.

Keizan Zenji is credited with not only preserving but reviving the line of Soto Zen ancestors that up until his time were almost forgotten.

Shasta Abbey's late Abbess, Jiyu Kennett, often said that the long sentences used in Zen would likely annoy American readers.