Once Japan’s Imperial capital, the city has been a spiritual and cultural epicentre for more than a thousand years. That ...

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

A FOUNDATION stone has been laid for a Buddhist temple and zen meditation centre under planning near the Mallee Sky Gardens ...

Explore top hotels in Kyoto like Six Senses and Banyan Tree to witness sakura season with scenic views and unbeatable ...

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." ...

Jon Stollenmeyer, 42, grew up in Ohio and studied architecture at the University of Cincinnati. In 2005, he visited a ...

The site may be suitably called a "Zen" environment. The temple's southwestern location coincides with Saihoji Temple, the original Zen Buddhism garden in Japan. Its name is derived from the ...

As young Chinese turn to mysticism for luck and protection, companies are capitalizing with brand tie-ins and metaphysical products and services.

Vacation rentals in Hakuba, Japan can bring in, on average, more than $60,000 a year in revenue for short-term rental ...

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 ...

In about a kilometer, the Buddhist temple Kenchōji, one of the Gozan—the five great Zen temples of the Kamakura period (1185–1333)—comes into view. Stepping through the Sōmon, the outer ...