Immerse yourself in a Japanese tea ceremony while wearing a kimono at Tokujuji, a 300-year-old Zen Buddhist temple on Itsukushima, an island near Hiroshima. Though the style of drinking powdered green ...

A centuries-old practice rooted in mindfulness and impermanence now finds itself repackaged as a global lifestyle aesthetic.

(The Conversation) — Social media has turned traditional Japanese matcha into a commercial trend, though its roots lie in Zen Buddhism. A scholar of premodern Japanese literature unpacks that history.

There is more to Zen than the Japanese tea ceremony. There is no more to Zen than the Japanese tea ceremony. All there is? Zen is like that... Apparently full of impossible contradictions! It is hard ...

For a man who feels at home all over the globe, this is the city that perfectly engenders peace at every turn and in the smallest gestures and details. Japan is often referred to as the Land of the ...