Teahouse N I T O
n i northwest:scale 1/8" t o b teahouse ea.r.thomson 2002 southeast:scale 1/8" N The Japanese Teahouse : Ritual and Form Buddhism had branched after about 600bc, into several distinct teachings. Of these, A Paper for M.Cohen’s Seminar on Architectural Proportion Mahayana (meaning 'big raft') Buddhism worked its way to Tibet, Mongolia, China, Korea May 2002, UBC | SoA and Japan. Of these five regional variations is the 'intuitive' school of Mayahana - or Zen. Submitted by a.r.thomson Zen (strictly literally!) means, 'meditation that leads to insight'. In order to make some sense of the Teahouse design, and more specifically its mode of Mahakasyapa, apparently, was the only acolyte present at The Flower Sermon, who proportioning, scale and materiality, it is necessary to understand something of the context understood. The Flower Sermon, it is said, was one where, "Standing on a mountain with his out of which the ‘Culture of Tea’, aka. ’Teaism’ first developed. This paper will attempt to disciples around him, Buddha did not on this occasion resort to words. He simply held aloft distill some sense of this ambient culture, and then relate the aesthetic of Zen, to the a golden lotus." (H.Smith, pg 134) components of the Teahouse proper, and finally, conclude with an examination of the proportions used in the Teahouse design. UBC’s Nitobe Teahouse was the primary resource Mahakasyapa was declared the Buddha's successor. 28 patriarchs later, in 520ad, studied, which is unique in that it is a ‘traditional’ structure on foreign soil, and thus Bodhidharma introduced the teaching of Zen to Japan.
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