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Zen

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++
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Zen /zen/ (also Zen Buddhism) noun [uncountable]  RRBa kind of Buddhism from Japan that emphasizes meditation 禅宗〔日本佛教宗派,强调冥想〕
Examples from the Corpus
ZenThere's always a Zen part of my personality that wings it through life.Some movies have a Zen of shelf life -- they grow on you after repeated viewings.She had big blue eyes but her hair wasn't fair like Carrie and Crystal and Zen.In fact she did the drawing part and she had the ideas and Zen kept pestering and eventually he just went stamp.Like Zen meditation, sensory awareness is not a teaching but a practice...His spare but beautiful clothes put the audience in a meditative Zen state.But then one Friday night when I was unpacking all my things I started up an argument with Zen.
Origin Zen (1700-1800) Japanese Sanskrit dhyanam watching
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Zen
Zen /zen/ (also ˌZen ˈBuddhism) noun [uncountable]
 Date: 1700-1800
 Language: Japanese
 Origin: Sanskrit dhyanam 'watching'
a kind of Buddhism from Japan that emphasizes meditation


ZenBrE /zen/ 🔊NAmE /zen/ 🔊 noun [uncountable] a Japanese form of Buddhism 日本禅宗