Quick answerWhich are the five houses of Chinese Chan Buddhism?
The five houses are Guiyang, Linji, Caodong, Yunmen and Fayan. These are the five great dharma transmission lineages recorded from the Tang and Song dynasties, sharing one Chan root but differing in how they guided students and in the recorded sayings they handed down.
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