Category: Temples
A person who discovers the direction of his life in zazen, who vows and at the same time lives by repentance through zazen, is called a bodhisattva. This means …
Directed by Master Myoken Bec – 5th and 6th March 2016 Zazen The Zazen practice is the Zen essence. Seated on a cushion (zafu) and facing the wall, legs …
Tibetan Buddhism, usually understood as including the Buddhism of Tibet, Mongolia, Bhutan and parts of China, India, and Russia, combines the essential teachings of Mahayana Buddhism with Tantric and Shamanic, and material from …
Millions of people today are fascinated by Zen, even though Zen teaches them to believe in “nothing” and that everything is illusory and impermanent. Zen accepts only one reality. …
There are a plethora of things that one might do/see/experience/understand while attending a sesshin. However, I wanted to extract just … A person who discovers the direction of his …
Nalin Pandya a.k.a. Pan Nalin, a self-taught filmmaker, was born in a remote village in Gujarat, India. He disliked school, … With Little Buddha, Bernardo Bertolucci, the director of …
Is been a long time since I first got at Hoboji, one of the main Zen temples in the Eastern … A new half-day sesshin to start in London …
Gutei (Chinese: Chu-chih) lived around the ninth century, his dates of birth and death are not available, since his real name is not known. Chu-chih (Gutei) was just a nickname. In the …
Taisen Deshimaru (Yasuo was his given first name) was born in on November 20, 1914, near the town of Saga, on the isle of Kyushu. His mother was a …
For over two thousand years, Buddhists around the world have celebrated the Buddha‘s Birthday. Traditionally, his birth is supposed to have been in 623 BC but the Buddhist calendar …
