From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishRelated topics: BuddhismZenZen /zen/ (also Zen Buddhism) noun [uncountable]RRBa kind of Buddhism from Japan that emphasizesmeditationExamples from the CorpusZen• There's always a Zen part of my personality that wings it through life.• Some movies have a Zen of shelf life -- they grow on you after repeated viewings.• She had big blue eyes but her hair wasn't fair like Carrie and Crystal and Zen.• In fact she did the drawing part and she had the ideas and Zen kept pestering and eventually he just went stamp.• Like Zen meditation, sensoryawareness is not a teaching but a practice...• His spare but beautifulclothes put the audience in a meditativeZen state.• But then one Friday night when I was unpacking all my things I started up an argument with Zen.OriginZen(1700-1800)JapaneseSanskritdhyanam"watching"