Fa-jung

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Fa-jung (Jap., Hōyū), 594–657, Ch'an Buddhist master, who founded the Gozu (‘Oxhead’) school, which is Ch'an/Zen related, but is not reckoned as belonging to the Five Houses/Seven Schools (goke-shichishū) of the mainstream tradition. The Oxhead school appears to have been eclectic, drawing on what it regarded as wisdom in other traditions.