Ryoanji Temple.

First today - Ryonaji Temple.

Ryoanji Temple is a Zen Temple renowned for its garden.

It features a dry landscape with large rocks and smooth pebbles.

It is designed as a place of meditation.

There are fifteen stones. The stones are placed so that the entire composition cannot be seen from from any one place on the veranda.

There is a stone wash-basin with the inscription “I learn only to be contented. He who learns to be contented is spiritually rich. The one who does not learn to be contented is spiritually poor even if he is materially rich”. This is an important concept in the Zen spirit.

From the dry garden the path goes around a pond, Kyoyochi Pond.Read more