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 ...

He added stones from Ryoanji’s rock gardens to the drawing of the ninth dragon. “They are paintings of a grand scale and look so spectacular,” said Yuko Matsuyama, the temple's chief priest.

The early sixteenthcentury Japanese garden in the Zen temple of Ryoanji in Kyoto is considered a masterpiece of the karesansui or dry landscape style In this film the viewer is invited to ...