Zen

Units

Unit	HP	Cost	Fights won	Beaten hardest by
Sohei NaginataNative warrior	140	5540	78%	Jaguar Prowl Knight

Fights won: share of equal-cost matchups against every regular unit it wins (base stats, Lanchester square law, as on /counters).

Trading Post improvements

Meritocracy300300

Implementing a system of meritocracy decreases unit upgrade costs.

Meditation350350

Zen meditation gives your 1,000 experience points towards your next Shipment.

+1,000 XP

Zen Honor Training300400

Zen warrior attack and hitpoints increased.

Sohei Naginata: hit points +35%, damage +35%

Sohei Naginata: damage +35%, hit points +35%

Master Lessons150150

Zen master lessons increase hand infantry attack.

Hand Infantry: damage +10%

Zen Discipline Training75100

Zen warrior attack and hitpoints increased.

Sohei Naginata: hit points +25%, damage +25%

Sohei Naginata: damage +25%, hit points +25%

History

Zen is a school of Buddhism that seeks a form of enlightenment achieved by the Buddha, a title that began with the very first Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, an Indian prince who abandoned his life of luxury to pursue an ascetic life. The goal of Zen is to eventually reach enlightenment through the Four Noble Truths: existence is suffering; desire is its cause; the cessation of suffering is possible; and the way to accomplish this is to follow the Eightfold Path. In the year 520 AD, a legendary Indian monk named Bodhidharma brought the teachings of Zen, then called Chan, to the Chinese. Chan Buddhists worked to see the world just as it is, with a mind free of thoughts or feelings. This perception was called “no-mind, or “wu-shin” in Chinese. Chan split into two separate schools, the Southern school, which believed in sudden enlightenment, and the Northern school, which believed in a more gradual process. Only the Northern school survived through the 8th century. By the 12th century, Zen had flourished in Japan, and by the 20th century it had gained adherents in the West. Today, Zen Buddhism is practiced by millions of people around the world. The tenets remain the same, that the potential to reach enlightenment lies in every human being, but is blocked by ignorance. Only intense study, meditation, doing good deeds, conducting rites, and the worship of images will enable the breakthrough required to shed limited perceptions and achieve a spiritual awakening.

In the in-game History

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