Fun Facts About Ryoan-ji
The Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto, Japan, is a world-renowned Rinzai Zen site celebrated for its 15th-century karesansui, or dry landscape garden. Originally an 11th-century estate belonging to the powerful Fujiwara family, the grounds were converted into a Zen temple in 1450 by Hosokawa Katsumoto. The garden consists of 15 meticulously placed boulders resting on a bed of white gravel, which is raked every morning by resident monks as a form of moving meditation to simulate the movement of water. A defining feature of this minimalist masterpiece is that only 14 rocks are visible from any single…
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