When did the Zen character begin to be pronounced chan

Normally, you are right, before the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the meaning of the Zen word is: Zen rang, the meaning of sealing Zen, according to the current understanding, should be read "shan4", that is, after the sound of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Buddhism flourished, according to Sanskrit transliteration, the Zen word was read as "chan2" but in fact it is not so simple. Because:

In the Later Han Dynasty, the question of whether Chinese had tones or not was still an open question, and ancient pronunciation scholars generally believed that the tone was a later tone, that is, the so-called flat and entering. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Buddhism flourished, and it was used to transliterate the flat sound of Zen in meditation, which should be the original sound of the word Zen according to logic. By mistake, the tone of the extended meaning is instead assigned to the original meaning.

This is not difficult to understand, Sanskrit has no tone, and the first syllable of polysyllabic words is of course more appropriate to be translated in flat words, so I don't know what the stress pattern of Sanskrit is.

Therefore, I don't think it is wrong to pronounce Mr. Yuan Kuocheng as liu2chan2, but it is just a crooked hit (or maybe this is indeed a customary reading that has been passed down) and collided with the ancient sound.

Zen is pronounced as: chán or shàn, interpretation:

1. When pronounced as chán, in Buddhism it refers to meditation, such as sitting meditation, meditation, and meditation.

2. When pronounced as shàn, it means the emperor's sacrifice to the earth, such as sealing Zen; The emperor gave way to others, such as Zen throne, Zen concession, etc.; It also refers to the generation of things.

Verses with Zen:

1, Song-Su Shi "Tan": Who can sit on the lonely stone and try the monk's Zen.

2, Song-Lu You's "Plum Blossom Quatrain": Luopu Xian, a beautiful woman in the empty valley, is more beautiful and beautiful in her makeup, and her heart is like iron, which provokes sorrow and breaks Zen.

3, Song-Zhang Yuanqian's "Farewell to the Old": Unprovoked exile forced to die, thirty Nanshan visits the old Zen.

4. Song-Song Taizong's "Fate Knowledge": What is meditation and the same heart, and the explanation is really like the outer space of things.

5, Song-Deng Su "Linjiang Immortal - Lonely Meditation Room Clear Dream Broken": The solitary Zen room is clear and the dream is broken, and the rooster voice evokes the morning bell.

Pinyin of Zen: [chán].Explanation:1Buddhism refers to meditation: zazen. 華 (cān) Zen. Zen mind.

Number of strokes: 12.

Structure: Left and right structure.

Radical: 礻. The meaning of the word is five elements: gold.

Sentence formation

1. I don't believe in this religion or the mantras of that religion.

2. "Foil" is Miss Harriot's mantra.

3. This mantra has the nature of pleading, despairing, and commanding.

4. Anyone who knew him took "Ask Herman" as a mantra.

5. It's like their mantra: 'I've lived in this place for twenty years.'"

6. *** needs one time""Purge" has become our political mantra.

7. His heart is full of infinite love for people, but his mouth is full of despicable and selfish mantras.

8. Soamis suppressed the mantra of "it doesn't matter" and didn't say - he can't get along with this foreign guy.

Zen pinyin: chán; shàn 。

Zen, shàn chán, from the single tone. Worship the heavens also. Whoever seals the earth for an altar. Except for the ground for the mound. The shape of the ancient script resembles an offering table for the gods. A single voice has a grand meaning. It means that Zen is a grand festival.

Kangxi Dictionary: "Tang Rhyme", "Collection Rhyme", "Rhyme Meeting", "Zheng Rhyme".