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==White Plum Asanga==

In the White Plum Asanga, the first step in a practitioner's teaching career is to receive the rank if "Hoshi" or Dharma Holder. This usually signifies that the practitioner has completed all or a portion of the White Plum koan curriculum and can start giving Dharma talks and seeing students in private interviews under the supervision of their teacher.

The White Plum Asanga, consisting of Dharma heirs of [[Taizan Maezumi]], recognizes ''denkai'', transmission of the [[Bodhisattva Precepts]], in advance of dharma transmission:

{{quote|This authorizes them to give the precepts ([[Buddhist initiation ritual|jukkai]]) and to ordain (shukke tokudo), although not to give dharma transmission, themselves.<ref group=web name=SeepingZenDenkai>[http://sweepingzen.com/denkai Sweeping Zen, ''Denkai'']</ref>}}