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Zen Buddhism?

Is Zen Buddhism a philosophy or at least a useful framework to use to and understand in conjunction with western philosophy?
Do any of you find value in it, do you not? Why? 
I'd love to know what everyone thinks.
gpt
>Is Zen Buddhism a philosophy

It is a religion, since it is a sect of Buddhism (specifically the Japanese instantiation of the Chán sect), and Buddhism is a religion.

However, like most religions, various believers of Zen Buddhism have also done philosophy, sometimes with the aim of dealing with questions or topics raised by Zen Buddhism in a philosophical way, and sometimes with only an aim to do philosophy in general while happening to be Zen Buddhist on the side.