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Vietnamese Thiền
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thumb|Trúc Lâm Temple, Thiền temple outside the [[resort town of Đà Lạt, Vietnam.]]
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It is catalogued under the topic Thiền Buddhism.
Its subject is documented across 8 Wikipedia language editions.
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- religious denomination
- Subclass of
- Chan Buddhism
- Country
- Vietnam
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Encyclopedic overview
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- History
- Early period
- Vietnamese dynasties
- Modern period
- Teaching and practice
- See also
- References
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thumb|Trúc Lâm Temple, Thiền temple outside the [[resort town of Đà Lạt, Vietnam.]]
Thiền Buddhism (, , ) is the name for the Vietnamese school of Zen Buddhism. Thiền is the Sino-Vietnamese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese word 禪 (chán), an abbreviation of 禪那 (chánnà; thiền na), which is a transliteration of the Sanskrit word dhyāna ("meditation").
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Vietnamese Thiền” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.