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Example sentences for: zen

How can you use “zen” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The shogunate founded great numbers of Zen temples in Kamakura.
In the animated ecological epic Princess Mononoke , the camera travels over landscapes with a clear, steady gaze, like a Zen hang glider.
For Japan is truly a kaleidoscope of lifestyles and images, local cultures and beliefs: the rice farmers in rural heartlands and the subway millions of teeming Tokyo; the Zen Buddhist monks and the fad-obsessed teenaged fashion victims; the solemn temple ceremony or the hellish din of the pachinko parlor; exquisite temple architecture or all-pervasive soulless concrete apartment buildings.
Much of that culture was inspired by the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism and its sense of discipline and self-control, its austere philosophy of art and life.
The gruff, bluff warriors’ taste for art — calligraphy, landscape painting, the tea ceremony, music, dance, and theater — coincided with a renewed interest in things Chinese, above all the teachings of Zen Buddhism.