Training and Initiatic Transmission
Khan was trained in the universal mysticism of his father, Vilayat Khan, as well as the classical Sufi teachings of the Chishtiyya order. In his youth he also studied Buddhism under the auspices of His Holiness the Dalai Lama while living in Dharamsala, India.
Khan was invested with spiritual authority by his father and Pir, Vilayat Khan, in the year 2000, making him a Pir in the lineage of Hazrat Inayat Khan. This lineage includes transmission from four major Sufi orders of India, but the primary transmission is through the Chishti-Nizami silsila. (Chishti-Nizami refers to a branch of the Chishti order, founded in the 13th century C.E. by Moinuddin Chishti. Silsila, or chain, refers to the chain of transmission of baraka, the spiritual power and blessing of a Sufi order.) Khan is the thirty-ninth human link in this chain of transmission.
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