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 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