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'''Chan''' may refer to:


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==Places==
*], Cambodia
*Chan Lake, by ] in Northwest Territories, Canada


==People==
'''Chan''' (禅 or 禪, ] ''Chán'' or ] ''Ch'an'', Sanskrit: ], Japanese: ]) is a major school of ] ].
*] (1920–2000), Canadian football coach
*] (born 1952), American football coach
*] (born 1952), Macanese businessman
*], South Sudanese jurist
*] (born 1941), American rock and roll performer
*] (born 1959), Surinamese politician
*], nom de guerre of Cambodian war criminal Mam Nai
*] (born 1997), Australian singer and producer of Korean descent, member of boy band Stray Kids
*] (born 1997), formerly known as Chan, Korean singer, member of boy band A.C.E


==Computing and media==
Chan is traditionally held to be a Chinese adaptation of Indian Dhyāna mediation practices, and is also often said to be influenced by indigenous Chinese ].
*chan-, an abbreviation for channels in ] (IRC)
According to traditional accounts, the school was founded by an Indian monk, ], who arrived in China in about 440 CE and taught at ]. Bodhidharma was ostensibly the twenty-eighth patriarch in a lineage that extended all the way back to ].
*chan, a common suffix for the title of an ]


==As an acronym/initialism ==
Bodhidharma is recorded as having come to China to teach a "separate transmission outside of the texts" which "did not rely upon textuality." His insight was then transmitted through a series of Chinese patriarchs, the most famous of whom was the possibly invented Sixth Patriarch, ]. A modern revisionist theory, however, suggests that Chan began to develop gradually in different regions of China as a grass-roots movement. According this view, Chan was a reaction to a perceived imbalance in Chinese Buddhism toward the blind pursuit of textual scholarship with a concomitant neglect of the original essence of Buddhist practice: meditation and the cultivation of right view.
*] or ''Championnat d'Afrique des Nations'' (CHAN), an African football tournament
*], a TV station in Vancouver, Canada


==Other uses==
After the time of Hui Neng (circa ] CE), Chan began to branch off into numerous different schools, each with their own special emphasis, but all of which kept the same basic focus on meditational practice, personal instruction and grounded personal experience. During the late Tang and the Song periods, the tradition truly flowered, as a wide number of eminent teachers, such as ], ], ] and ] developed specialized teaching methods, which would become characteristic of each of the "]" of mature Chinese Chan. Later on, the teaching styles and words of these classical masters were recorded in such important Chan texts as the <i>]</i>; (''Blue Cliff Record'') and the <i>]</i>; (''Gateless Passage'') which would be studied by later generations of students down to the present.
*], romanization of various Chinese surnames
*], a school of Mahayana Buddhism
*], a Japanese suffix which expresses endearment
*Chan ({{lang|th|ฉันท์}}), a form of ]
*], a song by Swedish band Kent
*Chan, the plant '']'', a relative of mint also known as "pignut"


⚫ ==See also==
Chan continued to be influential as a religious force in China, although some energy was lost with the revival of ] starting in the Song period. While traditionally distinct, Chan was taught alongside ] in many Chinese Buddhist monasteries. In time, much of this distinction was lost, and many recent masters teach both Chan and Pure Land. Chan was severely repressed in China during the recent modern era with the appearance of the ], but has more recently been re-asserting itself on the mainland, and has a significant following in ] and ] and among ].
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*], pronounced in Cantonese as Chan
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*], Japanese Buddhist school originating from Chan Buddhism
*], Indian Mahayana Buddhist school, origin of the Chan and Zen schools


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In the 20th and 21st Centuries Chan practice has been adopted by Westerners, particularly in Europe and the USA where several lay practitioners have received ] from ] and are now teaching in their own centres.

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*Chan can be variation of &#38515;, ] (a Chinese family name)

⚫ ==See also:==
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Latest revision as of 00:00, 5 October 2024

Chan may refer to:

Places

People

  • Chan Caldwell (1920–2000), Canadian football coach
  • Chan Gailey (born 1952), American football coach
  • Chan Kai-kit (born 1952), Macanese businessman
  • Chan Reec Madut, South Sudanese jurist
  • Chan Romero (born 1941), American rock and roll performer
  • Chan Santokhi (born 1959), Surinamese politician
  • Ta Chan, nom de guerre of Cambodian war criminal Mam Nai
  • Bang Chan (born 1997), Australian singer and producer of Korean descent, member of boy band Stray Kids
  • Kang Yu-chan (born 1997), formerly known as Chan, Korean singer, member of boy band A.C.E

Computing and media

As an acronym/initialism

Other uses

See also

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