Here's the press release: Courtesy The New Orleans Museum of ArtHotei's ink on paper drawing 'Sound of One Hand (late).' The Sound of One Hand: Paintings and Calligraphy by Zen Master Hakuin Organized ...

A pair of Japanese national treasures that are considered among the world’s most important Zen Buddhist masterpieces are heading to San Francisco this week, where they will be part of a ...

In the 18th century, enlightenment had almost opposite meanings in East and West. To Europeans it meant release by reason from superstition, that is, from religion and the burden of the past. In Japan ...

In addition to his well-known passions for hockey, world cinema and cowboy poetry, George Gund III loves Japanese Zen art. Over the past 25 years, the peripatetic arts patron who owns the San Jose ...

"This volume publishes Yukio Lippit's lecture of the same title, held at the Getty Center on 23 September 2014." "Japanese Zen Buddhism and the Impossible Painting examines the emphasis in Zen ...

For the first time since the museum’s founding nearly a century ago, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will exhibit the breadth of its medieval Zen ink paintings, highlighting rare and ...

For the first time since the museum’s founding nearly a century ago, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art will exhibit the breadth of its medieval Zen ink paintings, highlighting rare and ...

To walk through “None Whatsoever: Zen Paintings From the Gitter-Yelen Collection,” one starts in the middle and proceeds to move both forward and backward in time. The exhibition at the Museum of Fine ...