Transmission of the Lamp, The [伝灯録] (Chin Ch’uan-teng-lu; Dentō-roku): A work compiled in 1004, the first year of the Ching-te era, by Tao-yüan of China, a Zen (Ch’an) priest. The full title is The Ching-te Era Record of the Transmission of the Lamp. It details the lineage of Zen Buddhism as having been handed down from the “seven Buddhas of the past” through the Indian and Chinese Zen patriarchs to Fa-yen Wen-i (885–958), founder of the Fa-yen school. It gives accounts of a total of 1,701 Zen patriarchs and masters and is regarded in the Zen school as a historical work.