The important law in Zen.

Although the principles of Zen to  successor is not part of the Book (A special Transmission Outside the Scripture) does not rely on words and letters (No Dependence on Words and Letters) point directly to the essence of man.

Zen have appointment to look and see they notice in the nature of the self and achieve the enlightened (Seeing into One's Nature and the Attainment of Buddhahood), but it does not mean that the signature reject scripture or characters on the other hand teachers sign enshrined created a literature much as appear as. Koan poems, etc.

Zen signed a Buddhist sect one of which was influenced by ideas from China and India that has been inherited from the formula, important as great philosophy, Park Min Ta Formula (The Prajñaparamita Sutra) Sedhrnrnam Puntriu formula (The. Lotus Sutra) formula, Wei Lang (The Platform Sutra of Patriarch Hui-Neng) Watchara formula (The Diamond Sutra), but the formula is important. A quota formula Lanka (The Lankãvatãra Sutra), as history says that you have given Phothitham Lanka quota formula associated with a succession Parinayok Religious traditions of their own successors.