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A Zen Buddhist temple in the city of Kamakura, southwest of Tokyo, began airing out its cultural assets on Sunday.
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The history of matcha is rooted in the ninth century when it was introduced to Japan by Buddhist monks returning from China. These monks utilized matcha to maintain focus and alertness during long ...
Telling the story of a small, subsistence farming mountain community whose few remaining members keep drifting away to nearby ...
Mindfulness, or shamatha, is a subdiscipline of meditation. It is, in part, an exercise in nonattachment. Plot twist: ...
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