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Visit Japan: RYOANJI TEMPLE The site of Japan’s most famous rock garden, Ryoanji Temple sits …

RYOANJI TEMPLEThe site of Japan’s most famous rock garden, Ryoanji Temple sits surrounded by nature in a park like setting in northwestern Kyoto. Originally an aristocrat’s villa, the site was converted to a Zen temple in 1450. The garden consists of a rectangular plot of pebbles surrounded by low earthen walls, with 15 rocks laid out in small groups on patches of moss. An interesting feature of the garden's design is that from any vantage point at least one of the rocks is always hidden…

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Ryoanji Temple Info, Tips & Review - Travel Caffeine

Ryoanji Temple (龍安寺, Ryōan-ji) is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Northwest Kyoto, featuring the most famous Zen rock garden in Japan. In this post, I’ll share photos I took at Ryoanji Temple, info & tips for visiting, history of the temple, and thoughts on our experience here. While famed for that rock garden, Ryoanji Temple […]

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The vacant space of the garden, like silence, absorbs the mind, frees it of petty detail, and serves as a visual guide -a means for penetrating through the "realm of the multitudes." -from "Stone G... Stone Arrangement, Ryoanji, Japanese Rock Garden, Small Japanese Garden, Japanese Style Garden, Zen Rock Garden, Temple Gardens, Zen Garden Design, Japanese Zen Garden
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The vacant space of the garden, like silence, absorbs the mind, frees it of petty detail, and serves as a visual guide -a means for penetrating through the “realm of the multitudes.” -from “Stone Garden” by Will Petersen. My friend Chris Carver, recently lent me a copy of Jack Kerouac’s The Dharma Bums and fairly […]

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Photo by @justinbriceguariglia // A young monk raking the famous Japanese rock garden of Ryoanji Temple, early in the morning. A karesansui, Japanese rock garden, or Zen garden is an enclosed shallow sandbox containing sand, gravel, rocks, and occasionally grass or other natural elements. The main elements of karesansui are rocks and sand, with the sea symbolized not by water but by sand raked in patterns that suggest rippling water. Plants are much less important (and sometimes nonexistent)... Historic Gardens, Ryoanji, Japanese Rock Garden, Zen Rock Garden, Temple Gardens, Japan Garden, Sand And Gravel, Modern Garden Design, Japanese Rock
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Photo by @justinbriceguariglia // A young monk raking the famous Japanese rock garden of Ryoanji Temple, early in the morning. A karesansui, Japanese rock garden, or Zen garden is an enclosed shallow sandbox containing sand, gravel, rocks, and occasionally grass or other natural elements. The main elements of karesansui are rocks and sand, with the sea symbolized not by water but by sand raked in patterns that suggest rippling water. Plants are much less important (and sometimes…

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