kōan

Summary

kōan is a religious concept^[1]. kōan ranks in the top 8% of religious_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (625 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• kōan's religion is recorded as Zen^[3].
• kōan's image is recorded as Wild Duck Koan LACMA M.2006.198.3.jpg^[4].
• kōan's instance of is recorded as religious concept^[5].
• kōan's instance of is recorded as literary genre^[6].
• kōan's GND ID is recorded as 4203886-8^[7].
• kōan's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85072751^[8].
• kōan's subclass of is recorded as story^[9].
• kōan's subclass of is recorded as dialogue^[10].
• kōan's subclass of is recorded as question^[11].
• kōan's Commons category is recorded as Kōan^[12].
• kōan's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/049gw^[13].
• kōan's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph164947^[14].
• kōan's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Kōan^[15].
• kōan's National Library of Latvia ID is recorded as 000343129^[16].
• kōan's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/koan^[17].
• kōan's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'zh', 'text': '公案'}^[18].
• kōan's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ja', 'text': '公案'}^[19].
• kōan's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ko', 'text': '화두'}^[20].
• kōan's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'vi', 'text': 'công án'}^[21].
• kōan's different from is recorded as kaon^[22].
• kōan's Zhihu topic ID is recorded as 19580723^[23].
• kōan's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as koan^[24].
• kōan's Library of Congress Genre/Form Terms ID is recorded as gf2015026036^[25].
• kōan's National Library of Israel J9U ID is recorded as 987007545792805171^[26].
• kōan's KBpedia ID is recorded as Koan^[27].

Body

Personal Life

kōan's religion is recorded as Zen^[3].

Why It Matters

kōan ranks in the top 8% of religious_concept entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (625 views/month).^[2] kōan has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]