{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Zen (Chan) - Part 1: A lineage beyond words and the making of a tradition","description":"A master sits before a silent crowd. He lifts a single flower. No words, no explanation. One follower smiles—and in that moment, Zen’s foundational myth is born.\r\n\r\nWhat does it mean to inherit wisdom without a script? To trace a path from silence and gesture, rather than written law? For centuries, Zen—known as Chan in China—has told its own origin story as a living current, passed mind-to-mind from the Buddha himself. But behind the legend, the historical record reveals a tangled emergence, shaped by translation, monasteries, and the meeting of cultures in medieval China. To step into Zen’s beginnings, we enter a world of both myth and manuscript, silence and institution.\r\n\r\nLearn more at: https://thecreedarchive.com/creed/zen-buddhism","author_name":"The Archive Network"}