Guiyang school of Chan

C63868
concept

The Guiyang school of Chan is one of the Five Houses of Chinese Chan Buddhism, characterized by its use of metaphor, symbolism, and poetic expression to point directly to the nature of mind and awaken insight.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Chan school 10
Guiyang school of Chan canonical 1
classification of Chan sub-schools 1

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: Guiyang school of Chan
Generated description
The Guiyang school of Chan is one of the Five Houses of Chinese Chan Buddhism, characterized by its use of metaphor, symbolism, and poetic expression to point directly to the nature of mind and awaken insight.

Instances (3)

Instance Via concept surface
Five Houses of Chan
surface form: Guiyang school
Chan school
Guiyang zong
Five Houses and Seven Schools of Chan
surface form: Guiyang school
Chan school