What a lot of you guys know is that I've been working on something of a family-tree for the lineage. If you didn't know, well, now you do. I'll run over the basic aims of this project.
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To construct an interactive database that will ultimately include every zen master that has written/appeared/been mentioned in a lineage text. This database can be added to or modified by anyone who has the file and software as more translations of texts become available.
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To create a visually appealing and content-rich "family tree" of the lineage generated from the information present in the database. note: The relationship between dharma-master -> dharma-heir will primarily be based off the received lineage trees we have available but, where this fails and when problems arise the texts will, naturally, take precedence. Even zen masters can't agree who got the transmission from whom sometimes so there's no absolute winning in this department.
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Get random extra info, nicknames, Japanese names, monastery of residence, stupas erected to them, depictions of them, and, if I care enough, references to them in non-zen texts of the period.
I've been using the genealogical software "Ahnenblatt" to put in the information as well as produce a rudimentary graphical representation and today I have a very, VERY rough product put together containing most of the data from the Book of Serenity, Blue Cliff Record, Mumonkan, Record of Yunmen, Record of Linji, & Record of Joshu.
There are 3 files linked below. The first is the a zipped bitmap of the output family tree, pretty ugly, and lacking much of the important info contained in the files, but does the job of conveying the basics to a viewer who is who and their relationship to one another. The people with the 禪 calligraphy are in the lineage but no one bothered to paint a picture of them :'-(, those without any pictorial representation I have found no references to so far in any texts but will keep them around until the textual search is exhausted.
The second and third files are both the raw-data that was put together in Ahnenblatt, the only difference is file-format. The first is the Ahnenblatt proprietary file type and is specifically designed for use with that genealogical software. The second is in the GEDCOM file type and is an "industry" standard file type intended to be used across different platforms but seems to not render some of the info properly...
Expires in a week, so get it fresh!: https://filebin.net/drkyq19f3zmb0k0a
Feel free to tear me apart for any of the errors that are bound to be present.
Submitted January 01, 2020 at 04:37AM by ThatKir https://ift.tt/35cP33F
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