A Garden Speaks

Record #:

25722

Author(s):

Nathe, Margarite

Abstract:

Anthropologist Norris Brock Johnson has studied many of Japan’s Zen Buddhist temple gardens, Tenru-ji being the first. Brock learned that gardens serve as spiritual and pedagogical purposes, and have hidden symbolic meanings.

Source:

Endeavors (NoCar LD 3941.3 A3), Vol. 25 Issue 1, Fall 2008, p26-31, il, por

Subject(s):

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Spiritual life--Buddhism

Full Text:

http://endeavors.unc.edu/fall2008/a_garden_speaks.php