Ever since the Morikami Museum and Japanese Gardens reopened in June 2020 after the pandemic forced it to close for a few months, the garden’s curator Heather Grzybek said the number of visitors it ...

Today is the third and last day of Japan Week in Vanderbilt Hall of Grand Central Terminal. The primary highlight is a Zen garden, offered as a respite for busy New Yorkers. Delineated in the space by ...

In what follows, the reader is invited to share the writer’s bewilderment. Zen enlightenment — satori — is no antithesis of bewilderment, or solution to it, but its culmination. The Zen master’s crazy ...

Generations of Americans and Europeans learned about Zen Buddhism and its influence on Japanese culture from Suzuki Daisetz (D. T. Suzuki). This article commemorates the 150th anniversary of Suzuki’s ...

This exhibition showcases the breadth of the museum’s medieval Zen collections, highlighting rare and striking works from Japan and China to illustrate the visual, spiritual, and philosophical power ...

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There is beauty and tranquillity to be found in Zen gardens. But these enigmatic spaces also express the highest truths of philosophy, write Steve John Powell and Angeles Marin Cabello. For most ...