Japan - Kyoto - Zen Moss garden temple Ryogin-tei, Ryogen-in Temple

Zen Moss garden temple Ryogin-tei, Ryogen-in Temple. Designed by a painter and landscape artist named Sōami, Ryōgin-tei is special because it is a moss covered Karesansui garden - a Zen garden where the usual sand (which symbolizes the sea) is replaced by moss, which symbolizes the forest. The tall rock from the center represents Mount Shumisen (Sumeru in Sanskrit), a mythological mountain from the Buddhist cosmology, considered the center of the world.

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Zen Moss garden temple Ryogin-tei, Ryogen-in Temple. Designed by a painter and landscape artist named Sōami, Ryōgin-tei is special because it is a moss covered Karesansui garden - a Zen garden where the usual sand (which symbolizes the sea) is replaced by moss, which symbolizes the forest. The tall rock from the center represents Mount Shumisen (Sumeru in Sanskrit), a mythological mountain from the Buddhist cosmology, considered the center of the world.