Zen (disambiguation)

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Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.

Zen may also refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

  • Zen, a computer in Blake's 7
  • Aurelio Zen, in books by Michael Dibdin
  • Zen the Intergalactic Ninja, in Zen comic books
  • Zen, in Jacqueline Wilson's novel The Suitcase Kid

Film and television

  • Zen (2009 film), a biography of Zen master Dogen
  • Zen (2007 film), a drama-horror film
  • Zen (TV series), 2011, based on Dibdin's novels

Games

  • Zen Pinball, a game for the PlayStation
  • Zen: Intergalactic Ninja (video game), 1993

Music

  • Zen (Chinese band), from Hong Kong
  • Zen (Dutch band), a rock band
  • Zen (DJ Krush album), 2001
  • Zen (Zazie album), 1995
  • Zen: The Music of Fred Katz, 1957
  • "Zen" (song), by X Ambassadors, K.Flay, and Grandson, 2020
  • "Zen", a song by Anitta from the 2013 album Anitta

Businesses and organizations

  • Zen (department store), formerly in Thailand and China
  • Zen Internet, an English Internet service provider
  • Zen Studios, a Hungarian video game developer

People

  • Zen Cardona (born 1998), Japanese footballer
  • Zen Cho (fl from 2015), Malaysian-born fantasy author
  • Zen Chong (born 1978), Malaysian-born actor
  • Zen Gesner (born 1970), American actor
  • Zen Kajihara (born 1966), a Japanese actor
  • Zen Luzniak, American soccer player
  • Zen Jun Qian (born 1993), known as Zen Wong, Malaysian-born Chinese singer-songwriter and actress
  • Joseph Zen (born 1932), Chinese Catholic prelate
  • Lezley Zen (born 1974), American pornstar
  • Reniero Zeno (died 1268), or Renieri Zen, 45th Doge of Venice

Science and technology

  • Zen (microarchitecture), a family of computer processor microarchitectures
    • Zen (first generation)
  • Zen (recommendation system), a Russian information filtering system
  • Zen (software), a Go playing engine
  • Actian Zen, a database management system
  • Creative Zen, a series of portable media players
  • Zen (portable media player), 2007
  • Zen, symbol for Zerknüllt, a gene in Drosophila

Other uses

  • ZEN (Palermo) (Zona Espansione Nord), a quarter in Palermo, Sicily, Italy
  • ZEN (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable
  • Zen, an alternate title for god Zeus
  • Maruti Suzuki Zen, a car
  • Chen (surname), romanized as Zen in Wu Chinese

See also

  • All pages with titles beginning with Zen
  • All pages with titles containing Zen
  • Xen (disambiguation)
  • Chan Buddhism, the Chinese school of Buddhism from which Zen derives
  • Dhyana in Buddhism
  • ZENN, an electric vehicle
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