About 500 persons are gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the implantation of Soto Zen Buddhism in Europe. In this Zen temple, the oldest on the Old Continent, the work began in 1979 by ...

Why were temples built in India They did not always exist Before temples people worshipped rocks and rivers and stars Kumbh Mela is a classic example of Hindu ritual that does not involve any artifici ...

Below is the list of bon dances across Hawaii courtesy of Derrick Iwata of Hawaii’s Plantation Village. All dates and times ...

We visit with members of the Kaua‘i Soto Zen Temple in Hanapēpē, where the flying saucer originated. Then take you inside Bailey’s Antiques and Aloha Shirts in Kapahulu where the racks are ...

Kilroy meets me at the door of Dublin Zen Centre on Anglesea St in Dublin’s Temple Bar ... the founder of Soto Zen in the 13th century, is: to study the Buddha ways is to study the self.

Inland, don’t miss Eihei-ji (the “temple of eternal peace”), a 13th-century Buddhist monastery in the mountains east of Fukui city, where the Soto Zen sect was founded. Kaga Onsen (a ...

But Dairyuji is also the vibrant temple-home of the 38th head ... for a two-night Zen mindfulness retreat based around the Soto Zen tenet that we all have within us the ability to become ...

The city is also a good base for those who want to visit Maruoka Castle Park, one of 12 remaining castle towers in Japan, as well as Eihei-ji, one of two head Soto Zen Buddhist temples.