The wooden veranda of Shorinzan Daruma-ji temple is piled high with daruma that have fulfilled their function of granting ...

I make my own offering, and we leave the hall for breakfast. This is how days begin at Dairyuji, an 800-year-old Zen temple—a place of ancient beams, lofty halls, and deep, deep time—in Akita ...

I lived at a Zen temple at one point. That was the standard I knew before arriving in Japan. I think that made things easier. What was your point of entry? A tea master I met loosely introduced me ...

Kinkakuji, one of Kyoto's most famous Zen temples, was destroyed in a fire exactly 70 years ago today. Taizan Egami, 84, who was a 14-year-old novice monk at the time, was awakened around 3 a.m ...

KLANG: One of the biggest highlights in coastal Selangor during Chinese New Year is the annual Jenjarom Fo Guang Shan Dong Zen Temple’s Lantern and Floral Festival. This year, the temple ...

Oshima says one of Jobs' favorite destinations was Ryoanji, a 500-year-old Zen temple known for its rock garden. Oshima took Jobs there three times. "On our first visit, I told him about the ...

Ryuunji Temple high priest Kensyo Inada explained, "zazen is one of the ways to experience Zen. It is a way of sitting down to relax the body and to prepare the mind by slowing down the breathing." ...