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These articles, essays and links are intended for the new practitioner or student who wants a foundational background in Zen and Buddhism. They are not intended to cover all of Buddhist history of philosophy but to provide a framework for Buddhist knowledge.
Buddhism for Beginners
Zen is a school of Mahayana Buddhism [ a ] which originated in China during the 6th century CE as Chán . From China , Zen spread south to Vietnam , to Korea and east to Japan . The word Zen is from the Japanese pronunciation of the Middle Chinese word 禪 Dzyen (Modern Mandarin : Chán ), which in turn is derived from the Sanskrit word dhyāna , which can be approximately translated as " absorption " or "meditative state".
Zen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
/ ˌ k eɪ d iː ˈ iː / ) is an international free software community [ 1 ] producing an integrated set of cross-platform applications designed to run on Linux , FreeBSD , Microsoft Windows , Solaris and Mac OS X systems. It is best known [ citation needed ] for its Plasma Desktop , a desktop environment provided as the default working environment on many Linux distributions, such as Kubuntu , Pardus and openSUSE . [ 2 ]
KDE - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Free Software Foundation — what we do The FSF advocates for free software ideals as outlined in the Free Software Definition , works for adoption of free software and free media formats, and organizes activist campaigns against threats to user freedom like Windows 7 , Apple's iPhone and OS X , DRM on music, ebooks and movies , and software patents .
Welcome — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
Berkeley Software Distribution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Berkeley Software Distribution ( BSD , sometimes called Berkeley Unix ) is a Unix operating system derivative developed and distributed by the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California, Berkeley , from 1977 to 1995.