WORLD RELIGIONS

Detailed explanation-1: -Chan Buddhism is a major Chinese Buddhist sect attributed to Bodhidharma that emphasizes attaining Buddhahood, the supreme Buddhist religious goal, through enlightenment of one’s own mind, which subsequently spreaded to Japan and named as Zen.

Detailed explanation-2: -There are many schools of Buddhism. They differ not in the final objective of reaching enlightenment, but in their emphasis on methods of practice. A particularly important school is Chan (also called Zen in Japanese).

Detailed explanation-3: -Zen, Chinese Chan, Korean Sŏn, also spelled Seon, Vietnamese Thien, important school of East Asian Buddhism that constitutes the mainstream monastic form of Mahayana Buddhism in China, Korea, and Vietnam and accounts for approximately 20 percent of the Buddhist temples in Japan.

Detailed explanation-4: -Chan painting, Wade-Giles romanization Ch’an, school of Chinese painting inspired by the “meditative” school of Buddhism called, in Chinese, Chan (Japanese: Zen). Although Chan originated in China with an Indian monk, Bodhidharma, it came to be the most Chinese of Buddhist schools.