Buddhism
Arriving in the sixth century and never leaving. Zen and zazen, the raked garden, temple life, sutras and statuary, and the schools that shaped how the country thinks about death.
Part of Japan
26 moments in this segment.
- - Seated Buddha (lotus pedestal). Sculpture, 1100s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact.
- - The Bodhisattva Jizō. Statue, 1291, Japan, Metropolitan Museum of Art open-access; digitised reproduction of the original artefact.
- - Votive Hanging with Image of Kannon (Kannon Kakebotoke). Sculpture, mid- to late 1300s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact.
- - Batō (Horse-Headed) Kannon (base). Sculpture, 1600s, 1700s, from the Cleveland Museum of Art open-access collection; a digitised reproduction of the original artefact.
- - Buddhist Temple LACMA M.91.377.49. Japanese Buddhist temple pagoda photograph. 1865 Photographs Albumen print, hand-colored Unframed: 8 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (20.96 x 26.67 cm) Gift of Mrs. Ruthe Feldman in memory of Philip Feldman (M.91.377.49) Photography
- - Nara, Kofuku-ji Temple, five storeyed pagoda (6195650154). Japanese Buddhist temple pagoda photograph. Kōfuku-ji is a Buddhist temple in the city of Nara, Nara Prefecture, Japan. Kōfuku-ji has its origin as a temple that was established in 669 by Kagami-no-Ōkimi, the wife of Fujiwara no Kamatari, wishing for her husbands’s recovery from illness. (From Wikip
- - Ryoanji3361. Japanese zen garden karesansui temple.
- - August 2009 Nara tourism -38976. Tōdai-ji. August 2009 Nara tourism
- - Karesansui garden in Ryoan-ji Temple (4278143227). Japanese zen garden karesansui temple. Zen rock garden.
- - Myokoji karesansui. Japanese zen garden karesansui temple. Myoko-ji in Ukyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
- - - panoramio - ESU. Tōdai-ji.
- - 110115 Ryoan-ji Kyoto Japan03s3. Ryōan-ji. Ryōan-ji in Kyoto Kyoto prefecture, Japan
- - 110115 Ryoan-ji Kyoto Japan05s3. Ryōan-ji. Ryōan-ji in Kyoto Kyoto prefecture, Japan
- - A Day of the Unsui at Manpukuji. Film of the daily round of the training monks at Obakusan Manpukuji in Uji, head temple of the Obaku Zen school founded by the Chinese monk Ingen in 1661.
- - Sennichi Kaihogyo: The Thousand-Day Mountain Circuit. Footage of Endo Mitsunaga, a Dai-Ajari of Tendai Buddhism at Enryakuji on Mount Hiei, who completed the thousand-day walking austerity.
- - Kongoji Zen Temple Togen no Niwa. Japanese zen garden karesansui temple. Karesansui of Kongoji Zen Temple "Togen no Niwa"
- - A Year Among the Unsui: Daily Life at Eiheiji. Documentary following the training monks of Eiheiji, the Soto Zen head monastery founded by Dogen in 1244, through a full year of monastic practice.
- - Introduction to Zazen at the Tokyo Branch of Eiheiji. NHK radio Kokoro no Jidai recording in which Zenko Tento of Eiheiji's Tokyo branch temple gives instruction in seated Zen meditation.
- - A Thousand People a Year Go to a Kyoto Zen Temple to Train. ABC TV feature on a Kyoto Zen temple where roughly a thousand lay people a year undertake the rigorous practice, and on why they go.
- - Kiyomizu: Cycle of Blessings. Kiyomizu-dera's own documentary, built from roughly ten years of archive footage, on what a Buddhist temple offers people now, narrated around the head priest's words.
- - The Legendary Miyadaiku Tsunekazu Nishioka. Profile of Tsunekazu Nishioka, the last hereditary temple carpenter of Horyuji, who led the dismantling and reassembly of the world's oldest wooden buildings and rebuilt Yakushiji's West Pagoda.
- - Practice: The Seven Halls and Zen Training at Eiheiji. Official Eiheiji temple film on the seven-hall monastic compound and the daily discipline of Soto Zen practice within it.
- - 2025년 10월 19일에 일요일에 촬영한 도다이지 입구. Tōdai-ji. 도다이지 입구와 거기에 있는 사슴들의 모습
- - 20260427 Goldener Pavillon 03 im Kinkaku-Ji-Tempel, Kyoto, Japan anagoria. Kinkaku-ji. Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
- - 20260427 Goldener Pavillon 01 im Kinkaku-Ji-Tempel, Kyoto, Japan anagoria. Kinkaku-ji. Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
- - 20260427 Goldener Pavillon 02 im Kinkaku-Ji-Tempel, Kyoto, Japan anagoria. Kinkaku-ji. Golden Pavilion at Kinkaku-ji Temple, Kyoto, Japan
