There is beauty and tranquillity to be found in Zen gardens. But these enigmatic spaces also express the highest truths of philosophy, write Steve John Powell and Angeles Marin Cabello. For most ...

Apple’s new campus in Cupertino has left the design community a bit perplexed. Back in September most of the architectural critics who weighed in on the issue expressed a one-two combination of shock ...

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 have ...

How do I make sense of my life? Is this all? What can I do about the maelstrom of feelings, ideas, habits, blind spots, and deep connection, which rules my body and mind? What will give me peace? I’m ...

Should I wear my surgical cap or bare my shaved head when I go to the clinic to see my patients? This was one of the first questions that came to my mind after being ordained as a Zen priest a few ...

In Dune, the Fremen people of Arrakis practice an odd future hybrid religion called “zensunni.” This adds an extra layer of ...

Frustrated by your attempts to create a Zen garden? Can't get the placement of the rocks to agree with the sweep of the gravel? Science now has the answer: simply lay the rocks out so that the points ...

Below is the popularity graph of the name Zen from 1969 to 2024, based on data from the SSA. Based on the popular names list by SSA, the Japanese origin boy name has remained popular over the last ten ...