Mahāyāna Buddhism. It developed in China from the 6th century CE onwards, becoming especially popular during the Tang and Song dynasties. Chan is the originating...

Chinese "Chán"; in Korean: Sŏn, and Vietnamese: Thiền) is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as the Chan School...

practice, including Tiantai, Huayan, Chan Buddhism, and Pure Land Buddhism. From its inception, Chinese Buddhism has been influenced by native Chinese...

Seon or Sŏn Buddhism (Korean: 선; Hanja: 禪; Korean pronunciation: [sʌn]) is the Korean name for Chan Buddhism, a branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism commonly known...

Chinese Esoteric Buddhism refers to traditions of Tantra and Esoteric Buddhism that have flourished among the Chinese people. The Tantric masters Śubhakarasiṃha...

santana) of Sambhogakaya that links Dharmakaya with Nirmanakaya. In Chan Buddhism (Japanese Zen), the Sambhogakāya, along with the Dharmakāya and the...

one of three sects of Zen in Japanese Buddhism, along with Sōtō and Ōbaku. The Chinese Linji school of Chan Buddhism was first transmitted to Japan by Myōan...

Look up Chan, chan, -chan, or chans in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Chan may refer to: Chan (commune), Cambodia Chan Lake, by Chan Lake Territorial...

studied in the Sōtō school of Zen to a lesser extent. In Chinese Chan and Korean Seon Buddhism, meditating on a huatou, a key phrase of a kōan, is also major...

word 禪 (chán), an abbreviation of 禪那 (chánnà), which is a transliteration of the Sanskrit word dhyāna ("meditation"). Chinese Chan Buddhism was introduced...