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Monks are basically a person or people who practices religious asceticism by monastic living, either alone or with fellow monks. Zen, on the otther hand,d is more known as a philosophy teaching Mahayana Buddhism in China. Though in Japan, Zen has more articulate meaning. It is the Japanese attempt at pronouncing the Chinese word 'Chan', which is the Chinese attempt at pronouncing the Sanskrit word 'Dhyana', which translates as 'meditation'. That said, the word Zen defines an image of motionless Buddhist monks lost in deep meditation.

This video is a trailer of The Zen Mind, a feature film that depicts a life of a zen monk rolls in a day-to-day basis inside the large soto-zen monastery in Japan. 

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