Zen
pronunciation
How to pronounce Zen in British English:
UK [zen]
How to pronounce Zen in American English:
US
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- Noun:
- school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith; China and Japan
- a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight
- street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
Word Origin
- Zen (n.)
- school of Mahayana Buddhism, 1727, from Japanese, from Chinese ch'an, ultimately from Sanskrit dhyana "thought, meditation," from PIE root *dheie- "to see, look" (cognates: Greek sema "sign, mark, token"). As an adjective from 1881.
Example
- 1. Every friday is health tip day at zen habits .
- 2. Traditional zen retreats are held in silence .
- 3. Every thursday is happiness day on zen habits .
- 4. What can be more zen than a bit of silence ?
- 5. Another zen thought : the atom is the past .