Chan Buddhism

Chan Buddhism
Chinese name
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinChán
Wade–GilesCh'an2
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingSim4
Middle Chinese
Middle ChineseDzyen
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabetThiền
Chữ Hán
Korean name
Hangul
Hanja
Transcriptions
Revised RomanizationSeon
Japanese name
Kanji
Hiraganaぜん
Transcriptions
RomanizationZen

Chan (traditional Chinese: ; simplified Chinese: ; 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.

  1. ^ Dumoulin 2005a, p. xvii.
  2. ^ Kasulis 2003, p. 24.
  3. ^ 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

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