Zen
noun/zen/
/zen/
(also Zen Buddhism)
[uncountable]- a Japanese form of Buddhism
Topics Religion and festivalsc2日本禅宗 Oxford Collocations DictionaryZen is used before these nouns:- Buddhism
- Buddhist
- monastery
- …
Word OriginJapanese, literally ‘meditation’, from Chinese chán ‘quietude’, from Sanskrit dhyāna ‘meditation’.