Spring has come to the Retreat, with all of it’s glorious wind and night/day temperature changes. Fortunately, none of this stops the caretakers from trimming trees, placing plants back outside and cleaning the outside like busy bees. The spider plants…
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Spring 2014
Tagged with: bonsai, Buddhist, gardening, Kyoto, retreat, spider plants, spring, the Retreat, trees, watering, weather, wind, wood
Posted in Gardening and Nature, Informaitional
Posted in Gardening and Nature, Informaitional
Oshima Japan
Oshima or Ojima is a small pine covered island in the Matshushima prefecture in Japan. Once a meditation retreat for Zen (Chen) Buddhist Monks, it is now a walking tourist destination. It is accessible by a walking bridge from the…
Tagged with: Buddha, Buddhist, Buddhist Monks, Buddhist shrines, Chen Buddhism, forest, gorinto, island, Lotus Sutra, Matshushima, meditation, meditation caves, Monks, nature, Ojima, Oshima, retreat, shrines, solitude, walking meditation, zen, Zen Buddhism
Posted in Locations
Posted in Locations
Lumbini, the Birthplace of the Lord Buddha
*copied from the UNESCO World Hearitage Site* Siddhartha Gautama, the Lord Buddha, was born in 623 B.C. in the famous gardens of Lumbini, which soon became a place of pilgrimage. Among the pilgrims was the Indian emperor Ashoka, who erected…
Tagged with: Ashoka, Ashoka pillar, birthpalace, Buddha, Buddhist, faith, fellowship, gardens, history, hope, journey, King Suddodhana, Lord Buddha, Lumbini, meditaition, monastaries, monk, Nepal, pilgrimage, Queen Mayadevi, reflection, Shakya Prince Siddharta Gautama, shrines, Siddhartha, silence, suptas, temples, viharas
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Posted in Locations
Falling Water
Falling Water, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s three great projects, was designed and built in the southwestern Pennsylvania Mountains between 1936 and 1939. Utilizing aspects of Japanese architecture, Falling Water was designed to combine the living area of the residents…
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