Japanese Zen

Japanese Zen
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese禅
Traditional Chinese禪
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChán
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingSim4
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetThiền
Chữ Hán禪
Korean name
Hangul선
Hanja禪
Transcriptions
Revised RomanizationSeon
Japanese name
Kanji禅
Transcriptions
RomanizationZen
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. This practice, according to Zen proponents, gives insight into one's true nature, or the emptiness of inherent existence, which opens the way to a liberated way of living.

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