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    Below is the most complete lineage chart of Zen Masters known--
    Oshos every one of them--from a Japanese book printed in the 1990's.
    Starting from Gautam Buddha, to Mahakashyap, through 27 more
    Indian masters to Bodhidharma, considered the 1st of the Chinese
    Chan masters. Includes all the known Chinese, Korean, and Japanese
    names probably up to the present time, although no dates are given.  
    These 50 pages are purposely too small to read the names--don't
    strain your eyes to try.  The reason for putting them up is simply to
    show, that unbeknown to most people, the Zen tradition is huge, not
    just a handful of well-known masters.  There are listed here in the Zen
    world a ball park figure of about 15,000 bonafide masters, not just
    those who became "enlightened", had insights or satoris, but also had
    a recorded history of also guiding others and continuing what's known
    in the Zen world as the "transmission of the lamp".  

    The red dots at top indicate Chinese history, the blue dots Japanese,
    and a combination red/blue are the "bridge" men--maybe Chinese or
    Korean Oshos who went to Japan, Japanese who came to China, or
    those that went and returned.

    Also, not included are the self proclaimed Oshos, who had no master in
    the lineage, but worked on their own and simply declared their
    experience.

    Zen Masters names, as shown in the pages below, are traditionally
    composed of 4 Chinese characters.  The first 2 form one word and the
    last 2 form the second word.
    The first 2 are called the "mountain name", and are usually what the
    man is known as in the literature.  The last 2 are his Buddhist initiation
    name, given earlier in his life.  For example, Baizhang Huaihai is a very
    famous Zen master of the Tang Dynasty classical era of Zen in China.  
    Baizhang is the name of his mountain monastery, and Huaihai is his
    Buddhist name.  He is usually referred to simply as Baizhang (Hyakujo,
    Jap.).  Like all things in Zen, these conventions don't always hold true.
    Also, these romanizations are only used in the English speaking world--
    the Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean, and Japanese all used Chinese
    characters for the written forms.
               oshobob  The Living Workshop                                
                                               15.000 Osho Zen Masters