UJI, Kyoto Prefecture--Three days a week, a historic Zen temple here transforms ... wanted a set of the printing blocks in Japan. Ingen provided the temple with about 7,000 volumes of Buddhist ...

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 ...

The garden's layout invites you to take a stroll slowly and appreciate everything. The Adachi Museum of Art marries ...

a Northern California woodworker who trained as a temple carpenter in Kyoto, said, “Just go to Japan.” So I signed up at a Japanese language school, got my visa and went there. In Zen stories ...

Situated on Otowa Mountain in eastern Kyoto, Kiyomizu-dera Temple wows travelers with its stunning natural scenery, which visitors say is best viewed from the verandah off the temple's main building.

Kyoto proudly preserves its traditional ... The tour also took us past the Kenninji Temple (Japan’s oldest Zen Temple), ...

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