Overview of Zen Gardens

The Japanese Zen gardens or Karesansui are some of the most beautiful and exotic gardens.

The history of Zen gardens back in the misty beginnings of Japanese culture.
The Zen Garden is also known as a Zen garden or a Karesansui.

These gardens are very simple and in most cases only a few real plants.

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In many Zen gardens, there are things that grow in general.
The gardens are composed primarily of rock and sand. The word translated Karesansuias "dry water and mountains.

" The illusion of water, rake the sand in a pattern that suggests rippling water movement, while the rocks are arranged, created to make the islands or mountains.

 The history of Zen gardens dating back as early as 6 Century in Japan.

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One of the most famous Japanese gardens contain 15 stones arranged in a pattern on the rippled sand. Although most of the rock gardens are a particular position and perspective are considered,This garden can be seen from every angle.

Regardless of the point of view, only 14 of the 15 stones ever to be seen at once. It is said that spiritual enlightenment is reached, the Invisible 15 Rock would then be seen.

This is an example of the influence of these Zen gardens.
There are records of rock and sand gardens, dates from the reign of Empress Suiko in 592 AD.
Some evidence suggests that the art of rock gardens in this period must be preceded for some time as thefirst gardens were already highly developed.

In the first 700-Zen Buddhism began to spread in Japan and early Zen monks found the rock gardens and sand is a perfect fit for the ideas of simplicity and harmony that their vision of the universe are selected.

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The development of the gardens Karesansui continue with the 13 th Century, when the form they have reached their way into the modern era. The gardens can be very small.

Some simple Zen gardenswere made to be held in the hand, while others are quite large.

Many people have seen models of sand and rocks, which represent the sea and the islands of Japan.

Others saw more models, deep images of the unconscious which he called the rest, which was produced sought.

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In 1935 an American writer Loraine Kuck called Zen Garden coined the concept in his book "100 Gardens of Kyoto.

" The term became popular and eventually found its way into the Japanese language. E 'often used to represent the different styles of Japanese rock gardens and sand.

The common characteristic remains, however, the simplicity and sobriety, that the gardens of the early Zen monks.

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