David Chadwick’s latest book on the expansion of Buddhism in America —Tassajara Stories: A Sort of Memoir/Oral History of the First Zen Buddhist Monastery in the West—The First Year, 1967 (Monkfish, ...

Amid the chanting of sutras, the sounding of gongs and the curling smoke of burning incense. Chief Abbot Oda Sesso was ordaining a head priest for the Zen Buddhist temple of Daitokuji Ryosen-An in ...

So, let’s just go for it. What the hell happened in art history after the 1950s when the real, discrete art movements started to break down? That’s right — we’re taking the bull by the horns here, ...

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 ...

Different forms of meditation have existed in many different cultures and religions throughout human history. Cutting-edge scientific research provides a wealth of evidence pointing to the benefits of ...

Thich Nhat Hanh, the revered Zen Buddhist monk who helped spread the practice of mindfulness in the West and socially engaged Buddhism in the East, has died. He was 95. The death was confirmed by a ...

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 ...