Hakuin Ekaku was one of the most influential figures in Japanese Zen Buddhism, who regarded bodhicitta, working for the benefit of others, as the ultimate concern of Zen-training. While never having ...

Telling the story of a small, subsistence farming mountain community whose few remaining members keep drifting away to nearby ...

For the Japanese fair’s 4th edition, art was shown not only in a gallery but at historic sites to deepen visitors’ understanding of Kyoto.

Nikko, located in Tochigi Prefecture, served as the spiritual center of the Tokugawa Shogunate, founded during Japan’s Edo ...

We will also investigate Japanese reactions to Christianity in the 16th century and the appearance ... Benedict to the verses attributed to the first Buddhist nuns and a Zen monastic code. We will ...

Mindfulness, or shamatha, is a subdiscipline of meditation. It is, in part, an exercise in nonattachment. Plot twist: ...

People often mistake solitude for loneliness, but the distinction is crucial. Solitude has, loneliness wants. It is all the ...

A mountain man loses his connection to nature in this strange but stunning portrait of modernity set in the shadow of the ...

A set of documents from more than a thousand years ago that depict the history of cultural exchanges between Japan and China will ... approved the archives of the Buddhist monk Enchin (814-891 ...

From simple to classic to surreal, we take a closer look at innovative garden designs that are out of the ordinary.