The Linji zong school of Chinese Chan Buddhism， named after its founder Linji Yixuan 临济义玄. The Linji stream of Buddhism was one of the most prosperous in East Asia， enjoying strong popularity in China， Korea and Japan. One of the Five Houses of Chinese Chan， and one of the thirteen Japanese Buddhist sects. Although not surviving as a distinct tradition in Korea， it is Imje chong soteriology which ended up dominating the Korean son tradition within the Chogye 曹溪 school. In Japan， the Rinzai school， along with the So^to^ 曹洞 school， became one of the two major streams of Zen which survive to the present. The Linji school in all three East Asian countries was often characterized by anti-scholarly， iconoclastic attitudes.