What is "zen"

"Zen" is a 2009 film directed by Banmei Takahashi and starring Nakamura Kantarō II as Dogen, and Yuki Uchida as Orin.

The film is a biography of Dōgen Zenji (19 January 1200 – 22 September 1253), a Japanese Zen Buddhist teacher. After travelling to China to study, Dogen founded the Sōtō school of Zen in Japan. The Buddhist Film Foundation described it as "a poignant, in-depth, reverent and surprisingly moving portrait of Eihei Dogen."

ZEN Department Store ( Thai: เซน ดีพาร์ทเมนท์ สโตร์; Simplified Chinese: 先; Pinyin: Xiān) is an upmarket Thai department store chain with branches in Thailand and China it is owned by Central Group.

Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China during the Tang dynasty as Chan Buddhism. It was strongly influenced by Taoism, and developed as a distinguished school of Chinese Buddhism. From China, Chan Buddhism spread south to Vietnam, northeast to Korea and east to Japan, where it became known as Japanese Zen.

Zen emphasizes rigorous self-control, meditation-practice, insight into Buddha-nature, and the personal expression of this insight in daily life, especially for the benefit of others. As such, it de-emphasizes mere knowledge of sutras and doctrine and favors direct understanding through zazen and interaction with an accomplished teacher.

The teachings of Zen include various sources of Mahayana thought, especially Yogachara, the Tathāgatagarbha sūtras and the Huayan school, with their emphasis on Buddha-nature, totality, and the Bodhisattva-ideal. The Prajñāpāramitā literature and, to a lesser extent, Madhyamaka have also been influential in the shaping of the "paradoxical language" of the Zen-tradition.

Zen is a British television series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin. The series was filmed on location in Italy, but the dialogue is in English. The series, which comprises three 90-minute films, was broadcast in the United Kingdom on Sunday evenings from 2 January 2011 on BBC One. The three films were based on the books Vendetta, Cabal and Ratking. The series was cancelled by BBC One in February 2011; BBC One controller Danny Cohen later said there were already enough male crime-fighters on TV. Left Bank, the show's producer, tried to find other broadcasters to fund another series but were unsuccessful.

Zen is the codename for an upcoming computer processor microarchitecture from AMD, expected for release in early 2017. Designed from scratch rather than being an overhaul of AMD's long-standing Bulldozer architecture, the 14 nm architecture and its new AM4 socket will be the basis of the upcoming generation of AMD's high-end CPUs codenamed "Summit Ridge" with availability starting in 2017. Zen derived Opteron server processors are expected in the second quarter of 2017, and Zen based APUs are expected to follow in the second half of 2017.

While the series of "Bristol Ridge" APUs, released in May 2016, was one last iteration of the Bulldozer architecture, it already utilized the AM4 socket, embracing DDR4 support. With the creation of Zen, the differences and issues present with previous sockets were removed due to Zen being more SoC-like in nature, making it possible to integrate a wide array of components and controllers (which would previously differentiate sockets) into the processors themselves, removing the need for different types of motherboards and sockets to support them and instead allowing Zen chips to be unified under a single AM4 socket.

Zen is a Hong Kong rock music band that was signed by Warner Bros. Records and had its debut album in 1995. They disbanded in 2000 and re-formed in 2005.

Zen, sold as Tencho no Igo (, literally Zenith Go) in Japan, is a Go playing engine developed by Yoji Ojima , a Japanese Go programmer.