Japanese gardens are considered among the most beautiful in the world. Meditation gardens, also known as Zen gardens, were ...

curator of Japanese art at Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler galleries, "Ryoan-ji remains the ur-site of the type—powerful, abstract, Zen Buddhist landscapes designed to invoke deep meditation." ...

Thousands of years later, in Japan the practice continues under the name "zazen." Zazen (seated meditation) is the Japanese term coined for a practice that originated in India, flourished in China ...

Today, 80 percent of daruma dolls in Japan are made in Takasaki ... A reflective 30-minute stroll through “Taut’s Path of Meditation” is time well spent. Film director Akira Kurosawa ...