Defunct schools of Buddhism in Japan

thumb|right|A komusō (monk of the Fuke sect) wearing a basket hat (天蓋 tengai or tengui) and playing the shakuhachi, as depicted by J. M. W. Silver thumb|right|The entrance to Myōan-ji temple in Kyoto. Myōan-ji, a subsidiary of [[Tōfuku-ji, was the head temple of the Fuke sect, founded by the komusō Kyochiku Zenji.]]

Buddhist tradition in East Asia which represents the Indian Madhyamaka

The was one of the six schools of Buddhism introduced to Japan during the Asuka and Nara periods. Along with the Jōjitsu-shū and the Risshū, it is a school of Nikaya Buddhism, which is sometimes derisively known to Mahayana Buddhism as "the Hinayana".

, "single-minded school," was a sect of Japanese Pure Land Buddhists whose history remains obscure.

The was a branch of Shingon Buddhism founded in the early 12th century by Ninkan (仁寛, died 1114), a monk of the Daigo-ji lineage of Shingon who was exiled in 1113 to the province of Izu (part of modern Shizuoka Prefecture) after being implicated in a plot to assassinate the then reigning emperor of Japan, Emperor Toba.