Sŏn (Korean Chan)
A living tradition within Chan. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Sŏn (Korean Chan) is a living tradition within Chan. Also written Seon, Chogye/Jogye Order.
Origin
Founder named in the sources: Chinul (1158–1210), as revitaliser. No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. The Chan School entry records that Chinul (1158–1210) revitalised the Korean Sŏn tradition and that the Chogye (Jogye) order was founded in 1941. It does not name the earlier 'Nine Mountain' Sŏn schools, and no source retrieved in this pass documents them, so they are not asserted.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Sŏn (Korean Chan).” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-son-korean-chan.
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title = {Sŏn (Korean Chan)},
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note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.