The Rinzai school (Japanese: 臨済宗, romanized: Rinzai-shū, simplified Chinese: 临济宗; traditional Chinese: 臨濟宗; pinyin: Línjì zōng),named after Linji Yixuan...

that there are only two schools in any given field. Schools are often named after their founders such as the "Rinzai school" of Zen, named after Linji...

meditation (zazen) on a kōan is a major feature of modern Rinzai Zen. They are also studied in the Sōtō school of Zen to a lesser extent. In Chinese Chan and Korean...

Ōbaku school (Japanese: 黄檗宗, romanized: Ōbaku-shū) is one of three main schools of Japanese Zen Buddhism, in addition to the Sōtō and Rinzai schools. The...

Zongmi. In the Japanese Buddhist Rinzai school, zazen is usually combined with the study of koans. The Japanese Sōtō school makes less or no use of koans...

The forest is not far from Tenryū-ji temple, which is the location of Rinzai School, and the famous Nonomiya Shrine. The Sagano Bamboo Forest is situated...

and Proceed clearly: do not cloud the mind with intoxicants. In the Rinzai school students take refuge in the Three Jewels (or Three Refuges) and, similarly...

spread to Japan as the Rinzai school and influenced the nine mountain schools of Korean Seon. Before the Song dynasty, the Linji school was rather obscure...

the publication of the Kyotaku denki (1795), which created a fictitious Rinzai Zen lineage starting with the eccentric Zen master Puhua (J. Fuke) of Tang...

also lineage-holder of Nōnin, the founder of the Dharuma-shu, also a Rinzai-school. Gikai passed this lineage over to Keizan, who thereby was also lineage-holder...