I spent the past weekend at Zen Mountain Monastery in Woodstock, NY, where Professor Waldron from the Religion Department ...

Ikebana, Japan’s ancient flower art, blends mindfulness, harmony, and nature’s simplicity. Understand how this serene artform ...

From granite spires to pristine forests and devout Buddhism, Bhutan is landlocked between China and India. Dotted with innate ...

Recently I saw a huge pod of dolphins playing in the waves at my local beach. Not many things get people to get their faces ...

For a brief period, Leonard Cohen was a practising Buddhist monk, therein the folk musician and poet was given a profound ...

Japanese calligraphy, or shodo, is an ancient art that blends writing with beauty. It requires years of practice and patience ...

Don’t Be a Jerk” is the title of a book about Dogen by Zen teacher Brad Warner. Dogen was a 13th century Zen monk and the founder of Soto Zen.

Silence cemented our fellowship as our feet traced the granite slabs, sometimes walking by chance together in adjacent isles, then diverging to the far sides of the nested rings. The labyrinth, like ...

East Looking Back At Its West Interpreters. The traffic of ideas between East and West has always been more than ...

Two Japanese self-help books, whose Korean titles translate as “The low-consumption life” and “The monk’s way of cleaning,” ...

From a retreat renovated by a monk to a hotel floating above the paddy fields, these lodgings are worth a trip to the ...