Zen (disambiguation)

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

Zen may also refer to:

Technology

• AMD Zen, a processor microarchitecture from AMD
• ZEN (portable media player), a portable media player designed and manufactured by Creative Technology
• ZENN, an electric vehicle
• Zen Cart, an open-source online store management system
• Zen Internet, an Internet service provider based in Rochdale, England
• Zen Habits, simplicity blog with more than 130,000 subscribers
• Zen Studios (formerly Rubik Interactive), a Hungarian software development company based in Budapest
• 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
• Maruti Zen, a car sold in the Indian market by Maruti Suzuki
• Zen Coding, ultrafast way of making HTML code

Music

• Zen (DJ Krush album), the ninth album released by DJ Krush
• Zen (Zazie album)
• Zen (band), a Dutch rock band founded by Siegfried 'Siebe' de Jong and Dirk van der Ploeg
• Zen (Chinese band), a Chinese rock band
• Zen Alligators, a short-lived rhythm and blues band that arose out of the ashes of Horslips
• Zen Arcade, the third studio album from the American punk rock band Hüsker Dü, released 1984
• 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-Nippon East Waste Tour '91, video album produced by the Japanese band The Blue Hearts
• Zen-On Music Company Ltd, a music publishing company based in Shinjuku, Tokyo, in Japan.
• Zen Paradox, an electronic music artist, primarily techno/experimental, from Melbourne, Australia
• Zen Tricksters, an American Grateful Dead cover band

Games

• Zen and the Art of Mayhem, a generic role-playing game system simulating anime, tokusatsu, and action genre worlds
• 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

Books

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, a philosophical novel
• Zen and the Brain, a book authored by James H. Austin
• Zen at War, a book written by Brian Daizen Victoria, published in 1998
• Zen the Intergalactic Ninja, a comic book character
• Zen in the Art of Archery, a short book written by Eugen Herrigel
• Zen in the Art of Writing, written by Ray Bradbury and published in 1990
• Zen Shorts, a 2005 children's picture book by Jon J. Muth

Visual arts

• Zen (2009 film), a fictional biography of Zen master Dogen
• Zen (2007 film), a drama film written and directed by Gary Davis
• Zen (TV series), a 2011 TV drama series based on the Aurelio Zen novels by Michael Dibdin
• Zen (Blake's 7), fictional computer from the television serial Blake's 7
• Zen 49, a group of German artists, who came together in Munich in July 1949
• Zen Noir, a 2006 surrealist Buddhist murder mystery by independent filmmaker Marc Rosenbush

People

• Zen Gesner (born 1970), an American television and movie actor
• Zen Kajiwara (born 1966), a Japanese theatre actor
• Zen Luzniak, a U.S. soccer defender
• Aurelio Zen, a fictional detective
• Joseph Cardinal 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

Other

• ZEN, an upmarket Thai department store chain owned by Central Group
• Zen-Noh, National Federation of Agricultural Co-operative Associations in Japan
• ZEN (Palermo), short for Zona Espansione Nord, a quarter in Palermo
• Zen, collateral form of Zeus

See also

• Xen (disambiguation)