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zen

Zen \'zen\ n [Jap, religious meditation, fr. Chin (Pek) ch'an2, fr. Pali 
   jha|B-na, fr. Skt dhya-na, fr. dhya-ti he thinks - more at SEMANTIC : a 
   Japanese sect of Mahayana Buddhism that teaches self-discipline, medit 
   ation, and attainment of enlightenment by direct intuition by means of 
   paradoxical and nonlogical statements