This article is about Chan/Zen Buddhism in China. For an overview of the school, see Zen.
"Chan school" redirects here. For the Harvard University public health school, see Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Chan Buddhism
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
禅
Traditional Chinese
禪
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
Chán
Wade–Giles
Ch'an2
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping
Sim4
Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese
Dzyen
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet
Thiền
Chữ Hán
禪
Korean name
Hangul
선
Hanja
禪
Transcriptions
Revised Romanization
Seon
Japanese name
Kanji
禅
Hiragana
ぜん
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Romanization
Zen
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Chan (traditional Chinese: 禪; simplified Chinese: 禅; pinyin: Chán; abbr. of Chinese: 禪那; pinyin: chánnà), from Sanskrit dhyāna[1] (meaning "meditation" or "meditative state"[2]), is a Chinese school of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It developed in China from the 6th century CE onwards, becoming especially popular during the Tang and Song dynasties.[3]
Chinese Buddha Character Fo
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.
^Dumoulin 2005a, p. xvii.
^Kasulis 2003, p. 24.
^Hershock, Peter (2019), "Chan Buddhism", in Zalta, Edward N. (ed.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2019 ed.), Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University, retrieved 2020-01-17
Mahāyāna Buddhism. It developed in China from the 6th century CE onwards, becoming especially popular during the Tang and Song dynasties. Chan is the originating...
Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School...
practice, including Tiantai, Huayan, ChanBuddhism, and Pure Land Buddhism. From its inception, Chinese Buddhism has been influenced by native Chinese...
CHAN-DT, a TV station in Vancouver, Canada ChanBuddhism (禅), a school of Mahayana Buddhism -chan, a Japanese suffix which expresses endearment Chan (ฉันท์)...
Chinese Esoteric Buddhism refers to traditions of Tantra and Esoteric Buddhism that have flourished among the Chinese people. The Tantric masters Śubhakarasiṃha...
one of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism, along with Sōtō and Ōbaku. The Chinese Linji school of ChanBuddhism was first transmitted to Japan by Myōan...
Seon or Sŏn Buddhism (Korean: 선; Hanja: 禪; Korean pronunciation: [sʌn]) is the Korean name for ChanBuddhism, a branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism commonly known...
oldest, largest, and most famous styles of wushu, or kung fu of ChanBuddhism. It combines Chan philosophy and martial arts. It was developed in the Shaolin...
provide one another through guidance and support. Dharma is employed in ChanBuddhism in a specific context in relation to transmission of authentic doctrine...
Shaolin Temple, is a monastic institution recognized as the birthplace of ChanBuddhism and the cradle of Shaolin Kung Fu. It is located at the foot of Wuru...
identified with and venerated as Maitreya Buddha in ChanBuddhism. With the spread of ChanBuddhism, he also came to be venerated in Vietnam, Korea, and...
phrase was used by his teacher Rujing, a monk of the Caodong school of ChanBuddhism, to refer to the meditation-practice called "Silent Illumination" (Chinese:...
Pure Land Buddhism or Pure Land School (Chinese: 淨土宗; pinyin: Jìngtǔzōng; Japanese: 浄土仏教, romanized: Jōdo bukkyō; Korean: 정토종; RR: Jeongto-jong; Vietnamese:...
influential traditions include Chan (Zen), Nichiren Buddhism, Pure Land, Huayan, Tiantai, and Chinese Esoteric Buddhism. These schools developed new, uniquely...
Hanja: 無相, 684–762), was a Korean master of ChanBuddhism who lived in Sichuan, China, whose form of Chan teaching was independent of East Mountain Teaching...
the Chan (Zen) School in China, he established the concept of "no mind". Linji Yixuan (Lin-chi), founder of the Linji school of Chan (Zen) Buddhism in...
patriarch of both the Huayan school and ChanBuddhism. Zongmi wrote a number of works on several Mahayana Sutras, Chan and Huayan, and he also discussed Taoism...
centuries CE. The word chán became the designation for ChanBuddhism (Korean Seon, Vietnamese Thiền, Japanese Zen). In Chinese Buddhism, following the Ur-text...
are also sacred mountains in Tibetan Buddhism, which are considered holy sites of Tibetan Buddhism. ChanBuddhism developed the Five Mountains and Ten...
Dongfang Shuo, became hermits to practice Taoism, or in later centuries, ChanBuddhism. Anchorite Recluse literature "CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Hermits". Analects...
臨済義玄 Rinzai Gigen; died 866 CE) was the founder of the Linji school of ChánBuddhism during Tang dynasty China. Information on Linji is based on the Línjì...
The history of Buddhism can be traced back to the 5th century BCE. Buddhism arose in Ancient India, in and around the ancient Kingdom of Magadha, and is...
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