Kyeyul (Skt. Vinaya) school: The school of the Silla was known in the Koryô as Namsang chong. Which focused on study and implementation of moral discipline.

Pôpsông ("dharma-nature") school: Pôpsông was termed Chungdo chong , the Pôpsang was termed Chaûn chong. The Pôpsông's hermeneutical methods were derived in great part from Hwôm, Consciousness-only and Tathaagatagarbha doctrines. It was also the organizing principle of the influential Ta-sheng ch'i-hsin lun (Awakening of Mahaayaana Faith) and many other texts of East Asian provenance. This usage of essence-function as a primary hermeneutical principle by which to harmonize apparently antagonistic doctrinal stances became a hallmark of Korean Buddhist synthetic discourse.

Wôllyung (Ch. Yüan-jung) school: The school was termed Hwaôm chong. Which focuses on the actualization of the metaphysics of interpenetration as found in the Hua-yen Sutra. This school, also known in Korea as Hwaôm (Ch. Hua-yen), is the most long-lived of the Chinese imported schools.