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A school of Mahayana Buddhism that asserts that enlightenment can be attained through meditation, self-contemplation, and intuition rather than through faith and devotion and that is practiced mainly in China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam. Also called Zen Buddhism.

[Japanese zen, from Chinese (Mandarin) chán, meditation, from Pali jhna, from Sanskrit dhynam, from dhyti, he meditates.]

Word History: It is hard to believe that a word as Asian as Zen is ultimately an Indo-European word. Zen, which has been in English since 1727, is the Japanese pronunciation of Chinese chán, "quietude." Chán comes from Pali jhna, from Sanskrit dhynam, "meditation," from the Sanskrit root dhy-, dh-, "to see, observe." The Indo-European root behind the Sanskrit is *dhei-, *dhy-, "to see, look at." This root also shows up in Greek, where *dhy- developed into s-, as in Common Greek *sma, "sign, distinguishing mark." This became sma in Attic Greek, the source of English semantic.

Zen [zɛn] Buddhism

1. (Non-Christian Religions / Buddhism) a Japanese school, of 12th-century Chinese origin, teaching that contemplation of one's essential nature to the exclusion of all else is the only way of achieving pure enlightenment

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