I know you were expecting this one, so here it is:
a nonsensical or paradoxical question to a student for which an answer is demanded, the stress of meditation on the question often being illuminating.
Origin:
1945–50; < Japn kōan, earlier koũ-an < MChin, equiv. to Chin gōngàn public proposal
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