c. 601 AD–c. 1000 AD
Development of Chan
Religion · Buddhist traditions · Chan · Zen
Chan develops in diverse Chinese settings and later transforms in Korea, Japan, and Vietnam; it is not a universal synonym for meditation.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- century · approximate
- End
- century · approximate
- Dating in the source document
- ~ siglos VII–X
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
- The scale goes from 1 BCE to 1 CE without year zero. Changing era names changes labels only.
- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
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Sources
- Stanford Encyclopedia — Chan Buddhism (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
- Publication date
- 2015-04-01
- What this date describes
- The cited source or edition; it may postdate the historical event.
- Source updated
- 2019-03-02
- Bibliographic date checked
- 2026-09-23
- Date evidence
- Declared in the cited source’s publisher metadata.
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