Twenty-four post-thesis hours later found me as drained and blah as when I'd just turned the thing in, so for a bit of a pick-me-up I headed out to Kodai-ji, which is a Rinzai Sect zen temple in the Higashiyama District. It's a sub-temple of Kennin-ji, which I have always thought does one of the best jobs of both a) being a functioning Buddhist ( Read more... )

...( but Sacred Text's is better. )

...about Bamiyan, an ancient trading outpost in Afghanistan, and one of the most westerly Buddhist sanctuaries. The Taliban blew it up in 2001, long before good ole Shrub and Laura were into giving two shits about the country, but I remember being crushed, along with many of my classmates in EALC. Anyway, the Afghani government is considering ( Read more... )

...that Schrodinger's Cat is a modern day koan.

That will be all.

Astute readers may remember me threatening to do this late last September. Well, I'm a woman of my word, so let's talk Kenninji. If guidebooks were anything to judge by, it's nothing special, but it is perhaps my all time favorite temple in Kyoto. Kennninji was the first Zen temple built in said city and belongs to the Rinzai sect, which is ( Read more... )