(J) one of the two main sects of Zen emphasizing vigorous dynamic style and systematic koan study (Chadwick 1999).

a Zen school that favours use of koan meditation.

A Japanese (Ch: Linji) sect of Zen Buddhism.

(Japanese) The Rinzai Zen Buddhist Sect, traced from Lin-chi, ninth century.

Japanese; Lin-chi (Chinese); one of the two major schools of Zen Buddhism; it was founded by the Chinese master Lin-chi I-hsuan (Japanese; Rinzai Gigen) and brought to Japan by Eisai Zenji at the end of the twelfth century; it stresses koan Zen as the means to attain enlightenment.