# The Five Houses of Zen

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- Book: [The Five Houses of Zen](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-cleary/the-five-houses-of-zen) ([The Five Houses of Zen.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-cleary/the-five-houses-of-zen.md))
- Authors: [Thomas Cleary](https://www.bookquiver.com/thomas-cleary)
- Publisher: shambhala
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-08-3483-018-9
- Published: 1997-04-15
- Language: en_US
- Binding: E-book

## Description

For all its emphasis on the direct experience of insight without reliance on the products of the intellect, the Zen tradition has created a huge body of writings. Of this cast literature, the writings...