Buddhism and Zen

Bodhi-Dharma foretold that with five petals the flower would be complete. Succeeding generations produced five outstanding teachers, from whose particular methods five Chinese Zen schools were evolved continuing the teaching and transmitting the Dharma. These schools were known as the Dhyana or meditation schools. So Zen originally meant meditation, but it came to mean also enlightenment, the means of enlightenment, concentration of mind, and even qualities for which its followers became noted.