zendo

[ zen-doh ]

noun,plural zen·dos.
  1. the meditation room of a Zen monastery.

Origin of zendo

1
1955–60; <Japanese zendō, equivalent to zen Zen + -dō (earlier dau, daũ <Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese táng “hall, meeting hall”; cf. tong2)

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