Definitions for Zen

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IPA: /zɛn/

Zen is a 3 letter English word.

You can make 10 anagrams from letters in Zen (enz).

Definitions for Zen

noun

  1. Chinese Ch'an. Buddhism. a Mahayana movement, introduced into China in the 6th century a.d. and into Japan in the 12th century, that emphasizes enlightenment for the student by the most direct possible means, accepting formal studies and observances only when they form part of such means. Compare koan, mondo1 .
  2. the discipline and practice of this sect.

Origin of Zen

Japanese Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese chán, transliteration of Pali jhāna Sanskrit dhyāna

Examples for Zen

She is a local hippie, the most Zen out of all of us in the apartment.

The King returns to Cleveland, a battered Kobe battles in the West, and the Zen Master is christened the savior of New York.

When he emerged from the Zen monastery on Mount Baldy, his enlightenment was followed with an all too worldly disaster.

Keep this in mind, by the way: I barely knew the language, and the Zen could barely remember it.

Those words were said by Joshu Sasaki Roshi, who ordained Leonard Cohen as a Zen monk in 1996.

So the Zen before me was, by our standards, about twenty-five years old.

If the human body is a furnace, then the Zen body is a feeder pile.

After several delays the Zen wonderland is now penciled in for an opening at the end of the summer.

Six months later, when we returned, there were twelve hundred Zen on Vesta!

But the Zen's question, even my rationalization of my reaction to it, had given me a chill.

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