Jhāna = meditation
Zen (japanese) = 禪 = chán (chinese) = Jhāna (pāli)
+1 – Jhāna = Meditation
See 8🌄 for full details.
+2 – zen = Jhāna
all
'Zen' is the Japanese transliteration of Jhāna.
+2.1 – In Mahayana Buddhism
+2.2 – EBT repossession of the term 'Zen'
What lucid24.org realized, is that the word
'Zen' is immensely useful because it's a standard English dictionary word most English speakers understand worldwide,
and people even generally understand the correct original meaning of zen,
being Jhāna.
In contrast, Mahayana school of Zen, while it emphasizes meditation,
like the modern schools of
"mindfulness", have made it into a vague fuzzy practice losing the precise meaning the Buddha gave in 4j🌕 definition.