Rufus Sewell
Aurelio Zen
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- 1. Vendetta Jan 2, 2011
- Detective Zen is under pressure from the politicians and the Chief of Police.
- 2. Cabal Jan 9, 2011
- The ministry wants Zen to rule the death of a famous aristocrat as a suicide.
- 3. Ratking Jan 16, 2011
- A wealthy industrialist has been kidnapped.
A History. Part One: India and China: "Zen (Chin. Ch'an, an abbreviation of ch'an-na, which transliterates the Sanskrit Dhyāna (Devanagari: ध्यान) or its Pali cognate Jhāna (Sanskrit; Pāli झान), terms meaning "meditation") is the name of a Mahāyāna Buddhist school of meditation originating in China.
Zen is the direct experience of what we might call ultimate reality, or the absolute, yet it is not separate from the ordinary, the relative. This direct experience is our birthright. The practice of zazen—meditation—is a way of realizing the non-dualistic, vibrant, subtle, and interconnected nature of all life.
Zen: [noun] a Japanese sect of Mahayana Buddhism that aims at enlightenment by direct intuition through meditation.
Zen, important school of East Asian Buddhism that constitutes the mainstream monastic form of Mahayana Buddhism in China, Korea, and Vietnam and accounts for approximately 20 percent of the Buddhist temples in Japan. The word derives from the Sanskrit dhyana, meaning “meditation.” Central to Zen teaching is the belief that awakening can be ...
Jun 28, 2006 · Japanese Zen Buddhist Philosophy. First published Wed Jun 28, 2006; substantive revision Thu Mar 7, 2024. Zen, like the other forms of Buddhism, aims at the perfection or realization of personhood. To this end, sitting meditation called “ za-zen ” (坐禅) is a foundational method of prāxis across the various schools of this Buddha-Way ...
Zen is a Mahayana Buddhist tradition that emphasizes simplicity, present-moment awareness, nonduality, nonconceptual understanding, and zazen (“just sitting”) meditation—the tradition’s most important practice. Focusing less on scripture and sutra study than other traditions, Zen places a great importance on the cultivation of mental ...
