Koan (disambiguation)

Koan (disambiguation)

Koan may refer to:

* A legal case, as in The Cases of Judge Dee, 狄公安 Di Gongan in Chinese
* Kōan 公安, a case, story, dialog, question, or statement in the history and lore of Chan (Zen) Buddhism
* Emperor Kōan, an Emperor of Japan
* Koōn (公安), a common shorthand for the Japanese National Public Safety Commission
* Koan (program), an algorithmic music software package
* The Koan is a modern sculpture at the University of Warwick
* "Koan", a piece by James Tenney for violin
* Hacker koan, a humorous anecdote written by hackers about computer science
* Of, or related to the Greek island of Kos.
* KOAN-LP, a television station in Anchorage, Alaska

In Japan:
*Kōan (Kamakura period) -- a Japanese era name (1278 -1288)
*Kōan (Muromachi period) -- a Japanese era name (1361-1362)


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