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The Heze School (traditional Chinese: 菏澤宗; simplified Chinese: 菏泽宗; pinyin: Hézézōng), also called the Ho-tse School, was a short-lived school of Chinese Chan Buddhism during the Tang dynasty that was founded by Heze Shenhui (670–762) and who last patriarch was Guifeng Zongmi. Zongmi's writings and interpretation of Chan would later have a strong influence on Korean Seon Buddhism particularly through Chinul even after the school had died out.