Koan

A kōan ( KOH-a(h)n; Japanese: 公案; Chinese: 公案; pinyin: gōng'àn [kʊ́ŋ ân]; Korean: 화두; Vietnamese: công án) is a story, dialogue, question, or statement from Chinese Chan Buddhist lore, supplemented with commentaries, that is used in Chan, Zen, Seon and Thiền Buddhist practice in different ways. The main goal of kōan practice in Zen is to achieve kenshō (Chinese: jianxing 見性), to see or observe one's buddha-nature. Extended study of kōan literature as well as meditation (zazen) on a kōan is a major feature of modern Rinzai Zen. They are also studied in the Sōtō school of Zen to a lesser extent. In Chinese Chan and Korean Seon Buddhism, meditating on a huatou, a key phrase of a kōan, is also a major Zen meditation method.

Med of Poetry - 2025-07-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Retrospective Tapes: Liquid Caleidoscope (Selected Works) - 2015-06-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Retrospective Tapes: Crow Dancer (1993-1995 Selected Works) - 2015-04-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Retrospective Tapes - Elegy - 2015-02-25T00:00:00.000000Z

Agropyron Repens - 1970-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Works - 2013-05-12T00:00:00.000000Z

Frontiers - 2009-01-15T00:00:00.000000Z

Broken - 2009-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

¿Freedom? - 2007-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Koan - 2006-05-01T00:00:00.000000Z

Pushing Back at the Sun - 2003-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

At Everywhere - 2002-01-01T00:00:00.000000Z

La Dame aux Camélias - 2026-01-23T00:00:00.000000Z

The Color of Garnet - 2025-10-17T00:00:00.000000Z

In Lucia's Eyes - 2025-07-11T00:00:00.000000Z

Never Ever - 2022-02-22T00:00:00.000000Z

Still Dreaming - 2022-02-19T00:00:00.000000Z

Войди (KOAN remix) - 2019-12-13T00:00:00.000000Z

Mitakuye Oyasin - 2018-07-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Red Road - 2015-04-04T00:00:00.000000Z

Russian Lounge - Single - 2013-06-17T00:00:00.000000Z

Mitakuye Oyasin - 2013-02-13T00:00:00.000000Z