Embrace the beauty and simplicity of grass in Japanese zen garden design. Discover how these elegant elements can create ...

Kanho Yasukuji, a Japanese Zen monk and musician, started to blend Buddhism and music and released his music piece featuring Heart Sutra in 2016. His performance was broadcast via YouTube in 2017 ...

Hotei, a Japanese god who carries a large sack, has come to be identified with Santa Claus – except that he brings the ...

Monks understand the mind naturally wanders ... As Shunryu Suzuki, a Japanese Zen master, said, “Treat every moment as your ...

Japanese monks have been skipping, skating and juggling to show how unrestrictive their traditional attire is. It comes after a monk was fined by police for driving while wearing a kimono because ...

Jobs spoke about the influence of Zen Buddhism on his life in his authorized biography: "I have always found Buddhism, Japanese Zen Buddhism in particular, to be aesthetically sublime. The most ...

Maitreya, who was born Koji Takeuchi, is originally from Handa, near Nagoya, in Japan. He became a meditation master and previously lived the life of a Zen monk. But he left the monastic life ...