Большой англо-русский словарь:
zen
имя существительное;
религия и религиозные культы;
японский язык; = Zen Buddhism
дзен(-буддизм) (религиозное течение в Японии, проповедующее созерцание и интуицию как основу просветления)
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
zen
noun
Etymology: Japanese, religious meditation
Date: 1727
a Japanese sect of Mahayana Buddhism that aims at enlightenment by direct intuition through meditation
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing:
zen
[Kehoe, B., "Zen and the Art of the Internet", February 1992.]
[
Jargon File]
zen
To figure out something by meditation or by a sudden
flash of enlightenment. Originally applied to bugs, but
occasionally applied to problems of life in general. "How'd
you figure out the buffer allocation problem?" "Oh, I zenned
it."
Contrast grok, which connotes a time-extended version of
zenning a system. Compare hack mode. See also guru.
(1996-09-17) 
