Exhibition examines Chinese influences on Japanese art.That's the history recounted by the 32 objects in "Zen, Tea and Chinese Art in Medieval Japan" at the Freer Gallery of Art. It's hard to ...

Icons Exploring Nature in Japanese Prints A new exhibition at Oregon’s Portland Art Museum shows how a cheap, popular art form produced enduring masterpieces Maki Haku, ‘Fuji san-12’ (1989).

In this series, Lagniappe presents a different work each week from the collection of the New Orleans Museum of Art, with commentary from a curator. For centuries, Japanese Zen Buddhist masters ...

Japanese Zen Buddhism shares some beliefs with Chinese Taoism. In Japan, artists depicted twinned dragons and tigers on the sliding doors of Zen Buddhist temples.

In Japan, tea ceremony (cha-dou) is revered as a way to a gain deeper insights into life and philosophy. Traditional Japanese tea ceremony practitioners put in long hours to master the intricacies … ...

Zen gardens, those wonderful treasures of Japan, can be enjoyed in several ways: as pure abstract works of art; as representations of Zen principles; or as tools to transport one's mind from the ...

For a subject in which words are considered an impediment to meditative insight, it is daunting just how many words are needed to explain Zen. It uncannily dodges any attempt at definition, and at ...

Five Buddhist temples in Kyoto will soon allow overnight stays by foreign visitors who want to learn about the spirit of Zen from the temple priests. With a price tag of $1,300 a night, it’s not ...

In addition to his well-known passions for hockey, world cinema and cowboy poetry, George Gund III loves Japanese Zen art. Over the past 25 years, the peripatetic arts patron who owns the San Jose ...