NAHA, Japan – At a Zen Buddhist temple in southern Japan, even the dog prays. Mimicking his master, priest Joei Yoshikuni, a 1 1/2-year-old black- and-white Chihuahua named Conan joins in the daily ...

The Zen school of Buddhism emphasizes the practice of zazen meditation as the path to enlightenment. The spirit of Zen flows ...

Some Mauians got a taste of Zen Buddhism. Earlier this month, Naoko Moller, who was born in a Soto-Zen temple in Niigata, Japan, gave a course in Zen cooking to about 40 people in two sessions at the ...

Shoden-ji is a quiet Rinzai Zen temple hidden in Kyoto's northern suburbs, famed for a blood-stained ceiling and a rock garden that enchanted David Bowie. Founded in 1282, the temple's main hall was ...

HANAPEPE — The Hanapepe Soto Zen Temple announced Monday that the temple has been approved by the National Endowment for the Arts for a $20,000 Grants for Arts Project award that will support the Soto ...

The origins of Kaua‘i’s Soto Zen Buddhist Temple date back to McBryde Sugar Co.’s Wahiawa Camp in 1903, the year the Rev. Ryoun Kan arrived there to begin preaching Soto Zen Buddhism in Tsuneo Takai’s ...

GRAND RAPIDS — A bowl of water is placed among candles and a statue of Buddha on the altar at the new Grand Rapids Zen Center and Buddhist Temple. The clear and still water symbolizes the “true mind,” ...

In the lived-in rooms on the fourth floor of a Camp Street building, the New Orleans Zen Temple is very quiet - so quiet you can hear the bristles of a broom brushing the carpet as one of its ...

PEACE OF PIE: An upcoming Poetry and Pie fundraiser for Great Tree Zen Temple — an organization committed to nurturing feminine spirituality and personal growth for community members — will help the ...

A residential property in Las Vegas, Nevada, promoting itself as a zen temple is actually an illegal nudist resort. It was designated a place of worship before its current owners purchased it, but is ...