Dari Tiongkok, Chán menyebar ke Vietnam dan Korea (di mana disitu dikenal sebagai Seon) dan, pada abad ke-13, menyebar ke Jepang, di mana disitu menjadi dikenal sebagai Zen.
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Modern classics
Paul Reps & Nyogen Senzaki, Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
Philip Kapleau, The Three Pillars of Zen
Shunryu Suzuki, Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind
Classic history
Dumoulin, Heinrich (2005), Zen Buddhism: A History. Volume 1: India and China. World Wisdom Books. ISBN 978-0-941532-89-1
Dumoulin, Heinrich (2005), Zen Buddhism: A History. Volume 2: Japan. World Wisdom Books. ISBN 978-0-941532-90-7
Critical Zen-studies
Mcrae, John (2003), Seeing through Zen. Encounter, Transformation, and Genealogy in Chinese Chan Buddhism. The University Press Group Ltd . ISBN 978-0-520-23798-8
McMahan, David L. (2008), The Making of Buddhist Modernism. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-518327-6