Wu Shan LuOne of the core tenants of Zen Buddhism is Kongn practice. The original concept of Kongn, although associated with Buddhist practice in the West is not strictly a Buddhist term and translated means a public case, a public exchange, a public situation, or a public document. The pronunciation of the Chinese characters (__) for Kongn is G_ng n in Chinese or Koan in Japanese. The common use for this word comes from ancient China, and referred to a