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Zen (n.)
school of Mahayana Buddhism, 1727, from Japanese, from Chinese
ch'an
, ultimately from Sanskrit
dhyana
"thought, meditation," from PIE root
*dheie-
"to see, look" (source also of Greek
sema
"sign, mark, token"). As an adjective from 1881.
