Zen is a school of Mahāyāna Buddhism.
Zen may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media Fictional entities Zen, a computer in Blake's 7 Aurelio Zen, in books by Michael Dibdin Zen the Intergalactic Ninja, in Zen comic books Zen, in Jacqueline Wilson's novel The Suitcase Kid
Film and television Zen (2009 film), a biography of Zen master Dogen Zen (2007 film), a drama-horror film Zen (TV series), 2011, based on Dibdin's novels
Games Zen Pinball, a game for the PlayStation Zen: Intergalactic Ninja (video game), 1993
Music Zen (Chinese band), from Hong Kong Zen (Dutch band), a rock band Zen (DJ Krush album), 2001 Zen (Zazie album), 1995 Zen: The Music of Fred Katz, 1957 "Zen" (X Ambassadors, K.Flay, and Grandson song), 2020 "Zen" (Jennie song), 2025 "Zen", a song by Anitta from the 2013 album Anitta "Zen", a song by Band-Maid from the 2025 EP Scooooop
Businesses and organizations Zen (department store), formerly in Thailand and China Zen Internet, an English Internet service provider Zen (restaurant), a Japanese restaurant located in Markham, Ontario Zen Studios, a Hungarian video game developer
People Zen Cho (fl from 2015), Malaysian-born fantasy author Zen Chong (born 1978), Malaysian-born actor Zen Gesner (born 1970), American actor Zen Kajihara (born 1966), Japanese actor Zen Luzniak, American soccer player Zen Jun Qian (born 1993), known as Zen Wong, Malaysian-born Chinese singer-songwriter and actress Joseph Zen (born 1932), Chinese Catholic prelate Kai Zen (actress) (born 2012), American actress Lezley Zen (born 1974), American pornstar Reniero Zeno (died 1268), or Renieri Zen, 45th Doge of Venice
Science and technology Zen (microarchitecture), a family of computer processor microarchitectures from AMD Zen (first generation), the first generation of the microarchitecture, often referred to as Zen 1 to distinguish between the series and the first generation Zen (recommendation system), a Russian information filtering system Zen (software), a Go playing engine Actian Zen, a database management system Creative Zen, a series of portable media players Zen (portable media player), 2007 Zen, symbol for Zerknüllt, a gene in Drosophila Zen Browser, a fork of Mozilla Firefox Zearalenone, mycotoxin produced by Fusarium
Other uses ZEN (Palermo) (Zona Espansione Nord), a quarter in Palermo, Sicily, Italy ZEN (professional wrestling), a professional wrestling stable Zen, an alternate title for god Zeus Maruti Suzuki Zen, a car Chen (surname), romanized as Zen in Wu Chinese
See also
Xen (disambiguation) Chan Buddhism, the Chinese school of Buddhism from which Zen derives Dhyana in Buddhism ZENN, an electric vehicle