Description for Zen
- a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight.
- school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith. Abbreviated noun of sitting ‘座禅’.
This is an old Japanese character style.
“禅”. Compare it with this work.
Breaking down this character, the left side ‘ネ’ forms the radical “示”, and the right side ‘単’ becomes “單”. You can see each differs from the modern kanji.
Old Japanese kanji were complex. Japanese kanji changed significantly before and after the war, becoming simplified.
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