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                "Kenchō-ji school",
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                "Ken'nin-ji sect",
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                "Tōfuku-ji school",
                "Engaku-ji school",
                "Tenryū-ji school",
                "Shōkoku-ji school",
                "Kokutai-ji school",
                "Eigen-ji school",
                "Kōgaku-ji school",
                "Hōkō-ji school",
                "Buttsū-ji school",
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                "what_it_is_for": "Not applicable; a religious school.",
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                    "relay history and branches",
                    "describe cultural influence",
                    "distinguish from other schools"
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                    "Sudden insight",
                    "Head temple branches",
                    "Samurai and arts links"
                ],
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                    "Soto emphasises shikantaza; Obaku came later from China; Linji is the Chinese parent school"
                ],
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                        "quantity": "transmitted to Japan",
                        "typical_range": "1191",
                        "unit": "year",
                        "note": "Eisai"
                    },
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                        "quantity": "branches",
                        "typical_range": "14 or 15",
                        "unit": "count",
                        "note": "by head temple"
                    },
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                        "quantity": "Myoshin-ji temples",
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                        "unit": "count",
                        "note": "largest branch"
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                    "Kencho-ji, Kennin-ji, Nanzen-ji and Tofuku-ji branches",
                    "other branches such as Daitoku-ji and Engaku-ji",
                    "the Otokan lineage and Hakuin s reform",
                    "the Fuke sect as a related historical group",
                    "Rinzai Zen in the West"
                ],
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                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "Japanese Zen",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "is a kind of",
                        "target": "Kamakura Buddhism",
                        "why": "in registry terms"
                    },
                    {
                        "relation": "descends from",
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                        "why": "of Chinese Chan"
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                    {
                        "relation": "is contrasted with",
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                        "why": "the other main Zen school"
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                    "Japanese Religious Corporations Act",
                    "Branch regulations of head temples",
                    "Heritage protection of temples and gardens"
                ],
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                    "Confusing Rinzai with Soto or Obaku",
                    "Romanticising Zen and samurai links",
                    "Disrespectful presentation of practice"
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                                "id": "definition",
                                "name": "Definition",
                                "description": "Definition and practice.",
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                                        "id": "definition-finding",
                                        "name": "Definition",
                                        "description": "Definition.",
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                                                "text": "What is the Rinzai school, and how do koan practice and its teaching differ from Soto and Obaku, as the tradition and scholars describe?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the question about Rinzai, another Zen school or the Chinese Linji school?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
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                            },
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                                "id": "branches",
                                "name": "Branches",
                                "description": "Branches.",
                                "findings": [
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                                        "id": "branches-finding",
                                        "name": "Branches",
                                        "description": "Branches.",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "What are the Myoshin-ji, Kencho-ji, Kennin-ji, Nanzen-ji and Tofuku-ji branches, and how are they organised?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific branch?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
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                                ]
                            }
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                        "id": "history",
                        "name": "History",
                        "description": "History.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
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                            {
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                                "name": "Origins",
                                "description": "Origins.",
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                                        "id": "origins-finding",
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                                        "description": "Origins.",
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                                            {
                                                "text": "How did Eisai transmit Rinzai, and how did it develop through the Kamakura and Muromachi periods and the Gozan system?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which references are standard?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
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                            },
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                                "name": "Reform",
                                "description": "Hakuin and modern era.",
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                                        "id": "reform-finding",
                                        "name": "Reform",
                                        "description": "Reform.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did Hakuin reform Rinzai practice, and how did the school change in the Meiji era and after, including the abolition of the Fuke sect?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which sources are cited?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
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                                    }
                                ]
                            }
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                        "description": "Practice and culture.",
                        "rationale": "Attribution.",
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                                "name": "Training",
                                "description": "Monastic training.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "training-finding",
                                        "name": "Training",
                                        "description": "Training.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "What does Rinzai monastic training involve, presented respectfully?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Is the presentation respectful and attributed?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
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                            },
                            {
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                                "findings": [
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                                        "id": "arts-finding",
                                        "name": "Arts",
                                        "description": "Arts.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How did Rinzai influence tea ceremony, ink painting, gardens and the samurai ethos, with claims attributed?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Zen and the arts?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
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                    {
                        "id": "context",
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                                "name": "Today",
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                                    {
                                        "id": "today-finding",
                                        "name": "Today",
                                        "description": "Today.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "How is Rinzai practised in Japan and abroad today?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits Zen in the West?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
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                            {
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                                "description": "Temples.",
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                                        "name": "Temples",
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                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which Rinzai temples are notable for visitors and heritage?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "text": "Which entry fits the specific temple?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
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                ]
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            "openQuestions": [
                "Should the head temple branches be separate primary entries?",
                "How should Buddhist studies sources be linked?",
                "The registry entry has merged aliases naming branches and the Fuke sect; should they be split off?"
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                "layers": 8,
                "findings": 8,
                "questions": 16
            }
        },
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            "archetype": "organisation or institution",
            "method": "Written from the archetype playbook - what this kind of thing needs beyond identity and provenance - and from the structure that recurred across 6,333 models already researched by two engines. Applied to this entry by rule. No source was read for this thing and no claim here is researched. This entry carries no facets of its own, so they were inferred from its domain - a guess about a whole domain applied to one thing.",
            "facetsInferred": true,
            "nextPass": "A researcher replaces this draft with a sourced specification. Treat every sentence below as a proposal to argue with.",
            "purpose": "Give an agent a durable, checkable way to recognise a Rinzai school, record what state it is in, and decide what may be done with it.",
            "whatItIs": "Let an agent explain the Rinzai school and its practice, relay history, branches and cultural influence from Buddhist studies sources with attribution and respect, describe the head temple branches, and distinguish Rinzai from Soto and Obaku Zen and from the Chinese Linji school.",
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                "agency": "collective"
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                "observed and measured"
            ],
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                "Names folded into this entry, which a task may need to split apart again: Myōshin-ji sect, Kenchō-ji school, Fuke-shū, Ken'nin-ji sect, Nanzen-ji school, Tōfuku-ji school, Engaku-ji school, Tenryū-ji school, Shōkoku-ji school, Kokutai-ji school, Eigen-ji school, Kōgaku-ji school.",
                "17 finer distinctions are held as aliases rather than separate entries, because telling them apart needs a task that asks for it.",
                "Described in 32 Wikipedia languages, which is a measure of how widely the thing is known, not of how important it is."
            ],
            "openQuestionsForResearch": [
                "Which of the bundles below does a real task actually need, and which are ceremony?",
                "What does this thing have that the facets do not capture at all?",
                "Which neighbouring kind is most often confused with a Rinzai school, and on what evidence are they told apart?"
            ],
            "whatItIsMadeOf": "a social arrangement between people",
            "physicalCharacter": [
                "Acts through people, and only through them.",
                "These come from the domain this entry sits in rather than from the entry itself, so treat them as a first guess about the whole domain applied to one thing."
            ],
            "whatCanBeDoneWithIt": [
                "observe it, measure it, record its state"
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            "howItIsRecognised": [
                "Nothing to see. Recognised by name, register entry and the people acting in its name, and those change while it stays the same body."
            ],
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                        "Kenchō-ji school",
                        "Fuke-shū",
                        "Ken'nin-ji sect",
                        "Nanzen-ji school",
                        "Tōfuku-ji school",
                        "Engaku-ji school",
                        "Tenryū-ji school",
                        "Shōkoku-ji school",
                        "Kokutai-ji school",
                        "Eigen-ji school",
                        "Kōgaku-ji school"
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                        "description": "How an agent tells one Rinzai school from another, and a Rinzai school from things that resemble it.",
                        "rationale": "Recognition comes before every other claim. Without stable identity nothing else in the model can be trusted to be about the same thing twice.",
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                                "name": "Names and identifiers",
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                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                            },
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                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the name of a Rinzai school, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "preferred-name-and-aliases-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the name of a Rinzai school is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an identifier for a Rinzai school, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "stable-identifiers-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an identifier for a Rinzai school, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
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                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an identifier for a Rinzai school is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the kind of a Rinzai school, and in what units or vocabulary?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the kind of a Rinzai school, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                "id": "kind-and-parents-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the kind of a Rinzai school is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes what distinguishes a Rinzai school, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about what distinguishes a Rinzai school, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                                "id": "distinguishing-features-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once what distinguishes a Rinzai school is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                        "questions": [
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                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the lifecycle of a Rinzai school, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the lifecycle of a Rinzai school, by which method, and when was it true?",
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                                                "answer_data": [
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                                                    "method",
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                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                            },
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                                                "id": "stages-and-transitions-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the lifecycle of a Rinzai school is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
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                                "description": "What is observed about a Rinzai school, how often and by whom.",
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                                        "name": "Observation record",
                                        "description": "How an observation of a Rinzai school is recorded so that it can be superseded rather than overwritten.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes an observation of a Rinzai school, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
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                                                "id": "observation-record-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about an observation of a Rinzai school, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
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                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
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                                                    "knowledge time"
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                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "observation-record-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once an observation of a Rinzai school is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "people-and-responsibility",
                        "name": "People, roles and responsibility",
                        "description": "Who stands in what relation to a Rinzai school.",
                        "rationale": "Social things are defined by the relations people hold to them, and those relations change without the thing changing.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "roles-and-parties",
                                "name": "Roles and parties",
                                "description": "The roles that exist around a Rinzai school and who fills them.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "role-assignments",
                                        "name": "Role assignments and their validity",
                                        "description": "Who holds which role over a Rinzai school, from when, and on whose authority.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a role over a Rinzai school, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a role over a Rinzai school, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "role-assignments-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a role over a Rinzai school is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "ownership-and-accountability",
                                "name": "Ownership and accountability",
                                "description": "Who answers for a Rinzai school and who may decide about it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "accountability",
                                        "name": "Accountability and decision rights",
                                        "description": "Where responsibility for a Rinzai school sits when something goes wrong.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes responsibility for a Rinzai school, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about responsibility for a Rinzai school, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "accountability-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once responsibility for a Rinzai school is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "legal-identity",
                        "name": "Legal identity and mandate",
                        "description": "What Rinzai school is in law and what it exists to do.",
                        "rationale": "Legal identity survives changes of name, address, staff and premises, which is exactly why it must be recorded separately from all of them.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "registration",
                                "name": "Legal form and registration",
                                "description": "Form, register, identifiers and jurisdiction.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "registration-record",
                                        "name": "Registration and identifiers",
                                        "description": "What names this body unambiguously in law.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What legal form does Rinzai school take, in which register, under which identifier?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "registration-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What survives a rename, a merger or a move of premises, and what does not?",
                                                "kind": "boundary"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "mandate",
                                "name": "Mandate and governing instrument",
                                "description": "The purpose it is bound to and the document that binds it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "mandate-record",
                                        "name": "Mandate and its source",
                                        "description": "What it may do, and the instrument that says so.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q01",
                                                "text": "What is the mandate of Rinzai school, and which founding or governing instrument grants it?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "mandate-record-q02",
                                                "text": "What lies outside the mandate, and what should an agent do when asked for it?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "governance-and-membership",
                        "name": "Governance, membership and decision rights",
                        "description": "Who decides in Rinzai school and who belongs to it.",
                        "rationale": "Authority inside an organisation is held by roles, not people, and an agent needs to know which role can commit it.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "decision-rights",
                                "name": "Decision rights",
                                "description": "Bodies, offices and what each may bind.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "authority-map",
                                        "name": "Who may bind the organisation",
                                        "description": "The offices that can commit it and their limits.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q01",
                                                "text": "Which bodies or offices of Rinzai school may take which decisions, and up to what limit?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "authority-map-q02",
                                                "text": "What evidence shows that a given person currently holds that office?",
                                                "kind": "provenance"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "membership",
                                "name": "Membership and affiliation",
                                "description": "Who counts as part of it and on what terms.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "membership-rules",
                                        "name": "Membership and its evidence",
                                        "description": "Classes of member, how membership starts and ends.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q01",
                                                "text": "What kinds of membership or affiliation does Rinzai school have, and how does each begin and end?",
                                                "kind": "definition"
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "membership-rules-q02",
                                                "text": "What may a member do in its name, and what may they not?",
                                                "kind": "action"
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    {
                        "id": "provenance-and-evidence",
                        "name": "Provenance, evidence and time",
                        "description": "Where every claim about a Rinzai school came from and when it held.",
                        "rationale": "A claim without a source and a time cannot be superseded, only overwritten, and an agent that overwrites loses the ability to explain itself.",
                        "layers": [
                            {
                                "id": "source-and-authority",
                                "name": "Source and authority",
                                "description": "Who said it, on what evidence, and how strongly.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "claim-provenance",
                                        "name": "Claim provenance and confidence",
                                        "description": "The authority behind each claim about a Rinzai school and how confident it is.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes a claim about a Rinzai school, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about a claim about a Rinzai school, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "claim-provenance-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once a claim about a Rinzai school is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            },
                            {
                                "id": "time-and-versions",
                                "name": "Time, versions and supersession",
                                "description": "When a claim was true, when it was learnt, and what replaced it.",
                                "findings": [
                                    {
                                        "id": "validity-and-supersession",
                                        "name": "Validity period and supersession",
                                        "description": "How an old claim about a Rinzai school is retired without being erased.",
                                        "questions": [
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q01",
                                                "text": "What identifies and describes the validity of a claim about a Rinzai school, and in what units or vocabulary?",
                                                "kind": "definition",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "identifiers",
                                                    "types and classes",
                                                    "values with units",
                                                    "explicit unknowns"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q02",
                                                "text": "Who or what asserted this about the validity of a claim about a Rinzai school, by which method, and when was it true?",
                                                "kind": "provenance",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "authority",
                                                    "method",
                                                    "evidence",
                                                    "event time",
                                                    "knowledge time"
                                                ]
                                            },
                                            {
                                                "id": "validity-and-supersession-q03",
                                                "text": "What may an agent decide or do once the validity of a claim about a Rinzai school is known, and what must it refuse?",
                                                "kind": "action",
                                                "answer_data": [
                                                    "permitted actions",
                                                    "preconditions",
                                                    "refusals",
                                                    "escalation"
                                                ]
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                ]
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                ]
            },
            "statistics": {
                "bundles": 6,
                "layers": 12,
                "findings": 14,
                "questions": 38
            }
        }
    }
}