Abstract

Abstract The word chan (Wade-Giles romanization: ch’an), from which Chan Buddhism, or Zen Buddhism, takes its name, is a Chinese transliteration of the Indian Buddhist term dhyana, meaning “meditative concentration” or “meditative practice:’ Applied specifically to the Chan or Zen school, it carries the particular sense of the cultivation and experience of enlightenment itsel£ and not just any sort of meditative experience.

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