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What (who) is koan - definition
Koan
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Koan (era); Kôan (era); Kōan (disambiguation); KOAN; KOAN (disambiguation)
A (; , ; , ; ) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement which is used in Zen practice to provoke the "great doubt" and to practice or test a student's progress in Zen.
koan
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Koan (era); Kôan (era); Kōan (disambiguation); KOAN; KOAN (disambiguation)
['k???:n, 'k??an]
¦ noun a paradoxical anecdote or riddle, used in Zen Buddhism to show the inadequacy of logical reasoning and provoke enlightenment.
Origin
Japanese, lit. 'matter for public thought', from Chin. gongan 'official business'.
Kōan (Muromachi period)
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JAPANESE ERA FROM MARCH 1361 TO SEPTEMBER 1362
Kôan (second); Koan (second); Koan (Muromachi period)
was a Japanese era name (年号, nengō, lit. year name) of the Northern Court during the Era of Northern and Southern Courts after Enbun and before Jōji.
Examples of use of koan
1. It is not a Zen koan, however, a question that is meant to remain unanswered.
2. Koan, 60, took over the farm in Clayton Township, near Flint, from his parents.
3. Then Koan remembered how his grandfather would drive his pigs into his orchard so they could feed on fallen apples.
4. CLAYTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. –– Jim Koan has gone hog–wild in his battle against a beetle that threatens his 120–acre organic apple orchard.
5. The quarter–inch–long plum curculio is particularly difficult for growers like Koan to control because no good organic controls have been developed for them.