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Zen
(redirected from Japanese Zen)

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Zen
A form of meditation that emphasizes direct experience.
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In an ironic reference to Japanese Zen gardens, they subsequently made counters along the windowsills looking onto the newly opened up courtyard where viewers could contemplate the meaning of these weeds sprouting in the artificially constructed (or deconstructed) ruin.
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Among many similar books on the Japanese Zen garden, this reviewer has found this book truly fine because the aesthetic and philosophical nature and significance of such gardens has been well depicted and described with portraits of prominent Zen monks and photographs of representative Zen gardens.
Reading Zen in the Rocks: The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden by Gonnami, Tsuneharu / Pacific Affairs
Loop chair in plywood and steel by Hiroki Takada, inspired by the swirling patterns of raked gravel in Japanese zen gardens.
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