Zen (disambiguation)

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

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), a 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

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

• All pages with titles beginning with Zen
• All pages with titles containing Zen
• Xen (disambiguation)
• Chan Buddhism, the Chinese school of Buddhism from which Zen derives
• Dhyana in Buddhism
• ZENN, an electric vehicle