Five Zen houses. Clearry T.

Due to the nature and history of Zen Buddhism, there is neither a specific training program, nor a standard classical teaching textbook. Most of the material, which would be required to create the history of Zen Buddhism in the generally accepted sense of the word, is actually absent. But among the truly countlessly recognized works, created by many and many mentors and schools that arose and went into oblivion over long centuries of the history of Zen Buddhism, of course, those that have compiled the initial set of classical Zen stories and are associated with the so-called “five houses of Zen -Buddhism. "