Example sentences for: zen

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

  • The branch of Buddhism known as Chan (“Zen” in Japan and the West) also looks to Shaolin as its source.

  • Which is, perhaps, one definition of a Zen master.

  • North of Fushimi is Tofukuji, a major Zen temple complex.

  • 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.

  • For all his visionary filmmaking, Malick's Zen neutrality sometimes seems like a cultivated--and pretentious--brand of fatuousness.


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