Zen (disambiguation)

Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism notable for its emphasis on practice and experiential wisdom.

Zen may also refer to:

Places

• ZEN (Palermo), short for Zona Espansione Nord, a quarter in Palermo

People

• Zen Gesner (born 1970), an American television and movie actor
• Zen Kajihara (born 1966), a Japanese theatre actor
• Zen Luzniak, a U.S. soccer defender
• Joseph Zen, SDB (born 1932), a Chinese Cardinal of the Catholic Church, the sixth Bishop of Hong Kong
• Lezley Zen (born 1974), an American pornstar hailing from Charleston, South Carolina
• Reniero Zeno (died 1268), also known as Renier Zen, the 45th Doge of Venice

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Zen, a sentient computer from the television serial Blake's 7
• Aurelio Zen, Italian police detective and title character of the book series by Michael Dibdin
• Zen the Intergalactic Ninja, a comic book character
• Zen, one of the stepsiblings of the title character in Jacqueline Wilson's novel The Suitcase Kid

Films

• Zen (2009 film), a fictional biography of Zen master Dogen
• Zen (2007 film), a drama film written and directed by Gary Davis
• Zen Noir, a 2006 surrealist Buddhist murder mystery by independent filmmaker Marc Rosenbush

Games

• Zen Bound, a puzzle game for the iPhone OS developed by Secret Exit
• Zen of Sudoku, a Sudoku-based computer game
• Zen Pinball, a 3D pinball game for the PlayStation
• Zen: Intergalactic Ninja, a 1993 video game from Konami

Music

Groups

• Zen (Chinese band), a Chinese rock band
• Zen (Dutch band), a Dutch rock band founded by Siegfried 'Siebe' de Jong and Dirk van der Ploeg
• Zen Alligators, a short-lived rhythm and blues band featuring members of Horslips
• Zen Café, a Finnish rock band that was founded in Turku in 1992
• Zen Guerrilla, a rock band originally from Newark, Delaware and currently from San Francisco, California
• Zen Tricksters, an American Grateful Dead cover band

Albums

• Zen (DJ Krush album), the ninth album released by DJ Krush
• Zen (Zazie album)
• Zen Arcade, the third studio album from the American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released 1984
• Zen: The Music of Fred Katz, 1957 album by Fred Katz
• Zen-Nippon East Waste Tour '91, video album produced by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts

Songs

• "Zen", a 2013 song by Anitta from the album Anitta
• "Zen", a 2020 song by X Ambassadors (with Grandson and K.Flay)

Literature

(Alphabetical by author's surname, then title)

• Zen and the Brain: Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness (1998), a book by James H. Austin
• Zen in the Art of Writing: Essays on Creativity (1990), a collection of essays by Ray Bradbury
• Zen: The Religion of the Samurai (1991), a book by Julius Evola
• Zen in the Art of Archery (1948), a short book by Eugen Herrigel
• Zen Shorts (2005), a children's picture book by Jon J. Muth
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), a philosophical novel by Robert M. Pirsig
• Zen at War (1998), a book by Brian Daizen Victoria

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

• Zen (TV series), a 2011 TV drama series based on the Aurelio Zen novels by Michael Dibdin
• Zen Habits, simplicity blog with more than 130,000 subscribers

Computing, science and technology

• Zen (microarchitecture), a processor microarchitecture from AMD
• Zen (portable media player), a portable media player designed and manufactured by Creative Technology
• Zen (software), computer Go software
• Asus Zen UI, a front-end touch interface developed by ASUS with partners
• Zen Cart, an open-source online store management system
• Zen Coding, a set of plug-ins for text editors
• ZEN Vision:M, a portable media player developed by Creative Technology, launched 2005
• ZEN Vision W, a portable media player, developed by Creative Technology, released 2006
• Zerknüllt (German: zen gene), a Hox gene in the Antennapedia complex
• Yandex Zen, a personal recommendations service

Enterprises and organizations

• ZEN (department store), a defunct upmarket Thai department store chain owned by Central Group
• Zen 49, a group of German artists who came together in Munich in July 1949
• Zen Internet, an Internet service provider based in Rochdale, England
• Zen Studios (formerly Rubik Interactive), a Hungarian software development company based in Budapest
• Zen-Noh, National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations in Japan
• Zen-On Music Company Ltd, a music publishing company based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, in Japan.

Transportation and vehicles

• Maruti Zen, a car sold in the Indian market by Maruti Suzuki
• ZENN, an electric vehicle

Other uses

• Chen (surname), romanized as 'Zen' in Wu Chinese
• Zen, collateral form of Zeus
• ZEN (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable in Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling
• FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, abbreviation

See also

• Xen (disambiguation)
• Chan (disambiguation), the Chinese school of Buddhism from which Zen derives
• Dhyana (disambiguation), the Indian Mahayana Buddhist school, origin of the Chan and Zen schools