koan

As a noun koan is

(zen buddhism) a story about a zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the zen student’s mind leading to satori.

As nouns the difference between juxtaposition and koan

is that juxtaposition is the nearness of objects with no delimiter while koan is (zen buddhism) a story about a zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the zen student’s mind leading to satori.

As a verb juxtaposition

is to place in juxtaposition.

As nouns the difference between koran and koan

is that koran is while koan is (zen buddhism) a story about a zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the zen student’s mind leading to satori.

As an adverb koran

is early (at a time before expected).

As nouns the difference between koan and koas

is that koan is a story about a Zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of Zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the Zen student’s mind leading to satori while koas is plural of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between kan and koan

is that kan is khan while koan is (zen buddhism) a story about a zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the zen student’s mind leading to satori.

As nouns the difference between klan and koan

is that klan is (klan) while koan is (zen buddhism) a story about a zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the zen student’s mind leading to satori.

As nouns the difference between koan and koban

is that koan is (zen buddhism) a story about a zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the zen student’s mind leading to satori while koban is an oval gold coin in the edo period of feudal japan or koban can be a small community police office or a police box, especially one in japan.

As nouns the difference between koan and roan

is that koan is (zen buddhism) a story about a zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the zen student’s mind leading to satori while roan is an animal such as a horse that has a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.

As an adjective roan is

especially of a horse, having a coat of a dark base color with individual white hairs mixed in.

As nouns the difference between koa and koan

is that koa is species: Acacia koa, a species of large tree in the family Fabaceae which is endemic to and common on the islands of Hawaii; or the wood of this tree while koan is a story about a Zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of Zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the Zen student’s mind leading to satori.

As a verb goan

is .

As a noun koan is

(zen buddhism) a story about a zen master and his student, sometimes like a riddle, other times like a fable, which has become an object of zen study, and which, when meditated upon, may unlock mechanisms in the zen student’s mind leading to satori.