KYOTO, Japan >> Tofukuji Temple in Kyoto features a large Zen meditation space that spans about 200 square meters. On Sunday mornings, the sound of a priest using a stick to strike the shoulders ...

While Japan is famous for its beautiful Zen gardens, they are usually overshadowed by more popular destinations ...

Every day, hundreds of people visit Ryoanji Temple to see its Zen rock garden – which is probably the most famous of its kind in Japan. Located in Kyoto's northern outskirts, the temple was ...

UJI, Kyoto Prefecture--Three days a week, a historic Zen temple here transforms ... wanted a set of the printing blocks in Japan. Ingen provided the temple with about 7,000 volumes of Buddhist ...

Kyoto, often considered the cultural heart of Japan, is renowned for ... The Ryoan-ji Temple is another UNESCO site, renowned for its Zen rock garden. This karesansui (dry landscape) garden ...

Japan is a destination people love for ... Kinkaku-ji, also known as the Golden Pavilion, is a Zen Buddhist temple in Kyoto.

As if an after-dark stroll around Kennin-ji, Kyoto’s oldest Zen temple, wasn’t transcendental ... to float over the Daioen, one of the Japan’s most revered dry landscape gardens.

Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in Kyoto, Japan. The new Zen priest gravely accepted the kesa -the richly brocaded red-and-gold ...

It is a Buddhist sub-temple of the Rinzai Zen head temple, Tenryu-ji. The temple was founded in 1461 and was initially constructed in the Kamigyo-ku district of Kyoto, which is now the center of the ...

In this spiritual moment Zen Buddhism was born ... Andrew Faulk for The New York Times Change in Kyoto, Japan’s major city of temple gardens, is a quiet evolution. But a tour of several dry ...