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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Hoshinji monastery of Soto Zen Buddhism as seen from the front garden.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Working as part of the monastic practice or "everyday life Zazen" as they call it.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Working as part of the monastic practice or "everyday life Zazen" as they call it.
    HOSSHINJI 12.jpg
  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Monk's robes, bags and hats, waiting for them to wear them when they go for "takuhatsu". .That is how is called the visit they make to the houses of their community, telling prayers and collecting offerings for the monastery.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Monks' sandals.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Monk and nun in the kitchen, preparing lunch..The monastery is mixed and men and women take equal part in the practice..
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Moss garden at the backside of the monastery.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Working as part of the monastic practice or "everyday life Zazen" as they call it.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..After breakfast everyone is given work "soji" to do as part of the monastic practice, as the "Zazen in everyday life".
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Monk returning from a ceremony for the dead at the graveyard of the monastery..One of the main services the monastery offers to the local community is performing ceremonies for the dead..
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..A small break for tea between the work hours.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Soojii ringing the bell that calls everyone to have lunch.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Foreign visitors taking part to the morning sutra service. Hoshinji is one of the first monasteries of Soto Zen Buddhism, to become very popular to western scholars of Zen.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Shaving..One day every week is the day off, when the monks have time to take care of them selves. .
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Small ceremony for the washing of Buddha's handkerchief.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Rehearsing the ceremony for Buddha's birthday.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Monks on the way for lunch. Each monk is using 3 bowls for the meals. They keep them in their rooms one inside the other and covered with a towel, until they lift them up to bring them at the table.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Preparing the table for lunch. Eating is also part of the practice and the monks have to follow certain very strict rules. It is considered to have equal importance with Zazen meditation.
    HOSSHINJI 22.jpg
  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Monk practicing on the bells to be ready to play as part of a ceremony.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Morning sutra service.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Nun in the kitchen preparing lunch.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Harada Soogaku (middle) was the 1st abbot of the monastery in 1920. There were 60 monks living in the monastery at his time.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Shaving..One day every week is the day off, when the monks have time to take care of them selves. .
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Monks in "Zazen" meditation position in the Zento
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Rehearsing the ceremony for Buddha's birthday.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Nuns shaving their heads..One day every week is the day off, when the monks have time to take care of them selves. .
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Names of the families that sponsor the monastery.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Working as part of the monastic practice or "everyday life Zazen" as they call it.
    HOSSHINJI 15.jpg
  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Morning sutra service.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..A German who became the monk Shoodoo, hitting the drum to call for the morning sutra service.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Monk in "Zazen" meditation position in the Zento.
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  • LIVING ZEN - HOSHINJI MONASTERY, OBAMA-JAPAN..Working as part of the monastic practice or "everyday life Zazen" as they call it.
    HOSSHINJI 12.jpg
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