Ōbaku
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The Ōbaku-shū (黄檗宗) is one of three main schools of Zen in Japanese Buddhism, in addition to Sōtō and Rinzai. It had a strong influence on Japanese Rinzai, which partly adopted Ōbaku-practices, and partly reinstored older practices in response to the Ōbaku-school.
Manpuku-ji in Uji, head temple of the Ōbaku sect
Meditation Hall at Kōfuku-ji in Nagasaki
Meditation Hall at Sōfuku-ji in Nagasaki
Portrait of Chinese monk Yinyuan (Ingen), who founded the Ōbaku school
Zen
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Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School or the Buddha-mind school, and later developed into various sub-schools and branches. From China, Chán spread south to Vietnam and became Vietnamese Thiền, northeast to Korea to become Seon Buddhism, and east to Japan, becoming Japanese Zen.
The meditation hall (Jp. zendō, Ch. chántáng) of Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-Ji
Venerable Hsuan Hua meditating in the lotus position, Hong Kong, 1953
Calligraphy of "Mu" (Hanyu Pinyin: wú) by Torei Enji. It figures in the famous Zhaozhou's dog kōan
Victoria Zen Centre Jukai ceremony, January 2009