Zen Buddhism, a school within Mahayana Buddhism, emphasizes direct personal experience of enlightenment rather than reliance on scriptures or rituals. This video explores Zen’s legendary origins ...

There is a Japanese roshi, or Zen master, Shunryu Suzuki, 65, ... He concedes, however, that the traditional Buddhist rituals have been trimmed to fit the American attention span.

“Matcha has historical connections to Zen Buddhism, particularly in Japan,” Kawakami explains. “Zen monks incorporated matcha into their meditation rituals to help them stay alert and ...

He received his lay precepts there in 1987 and spent several years in the late 1990s living and working at the Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe where he studied socially engaged Buddhism, a more ...

Vajrayana or Esoteric Buddhist and its attendant pantheon of deities and secret, mystical rituals, was introduced to Japan in the early Heian period (after 794) ... Zen is the Japanese development of ...

Bhikkhunis (Buddhist nuns) Hyokeun and Hyung Jeon from the Korean Borisa Zen Center in Las Vegas, offered a white, ceramic lotus to Guan Yin during the ceremony.

Buddhist bestsellers used to come along once a decade: Kerouac’s “Dharma Bums” in the ’50s, Philip Kapleau’s “Three Pillars of Zen” in the ’60s and Shunryu Suzuki’s “Zen Mind ...

A pair of Japanese national treasures that are considered among the world’s most important Zen Buddhist masterpieces are heading to San Francisco this week, where they will be part of a once-in ...