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A History. Part One: India and China: "Zen (Chin. Ch'an, an abbreviation of ch'an-na, which transliterates the Sanskrit Dhyāna (Devanagari: ध्यान) or its Pali cognate Jhāna (Sanskrit; Pāli झान), terms meaning "meditation") is the name of a Mahāyāna Buddhist school of meditation originating in China.
See also Zen for an overview of Zen, Chan Buddhism for the Chinese origins, and Sōtō, Rinzai and Ōbaku for the three main schools of Zen in Japan. Japanese Zen refers to the Japanese forms of Zen Buddhism, an originally Chinese Mahāyāna school of Buddhism that strongly emphasizes dhyāna, the meditative training of awareness and equanimity. [1]
Chan is the originating tradition of Zen Buddhism (the Japanese pronunciation of the same character, which is the most commonly used English name for the school). Chan Buddhism spread from China south to Vietnam as Thiền and north to Korea as Seon, and, in the 13th century, east to Japan as Japanese Zen .
Shingon Buddhism (真言宗, Shingon-shū) is a branch of the Vajrayana Buddhism introduced to Japan by Kūkai in 816, who traveled to China and studied the Chinese Mantrayana tradition. Shingon is based mainly on two tantric scriptures, the Mahavairocana Tantra and the Vajrasekhara Sutra (金剛頂経, Kongōchōkyō).
Description. The ensō symbolizes absolute enlightenment, strength, elegance, the universe ( Dharmadhatu ), and mu ( emptiness ). It is characterised by a minimalism influenced by Zen Buddhist philosophy, and Japanese aesthetics. An empty circle also appears in the ten oxherding pictures which is a set of illustrations that depict Zen training.
v. t. e. Zen master is a somewhat vague English term that arose in the first half of the 20th century, sometimes used to refer to an individual who teaches Zen Buddhist meditation and practices, usually implying longtime study and subsequent authorization to teach and transmit the tradition themselves.
Satori (Japanese: 悟り)is a Japanese Buddhist term for awakening, "comprehension; understanding". [1] It is derived from the Japanese verb satoru. [2] [3]In the Zen Buddhist tradition, satori refers to a deep experience of kenshō, [4] [5] "seeing into one's true nature".
Zenshū Shiburoku. The Zenshū Shiburoku, The Four Texts of the Zen Sect, is a collection of four essential Zen texts which are being used in Japan as introductory texts in the education of novice Zen monks. The collection consists of the Jūgyūzu ( Ten Oxherding Pictures ), the Shinjinmei ( Faith in mind ), attributed to the third Chinese ...