Asia Quote by John McLaughlin

Now, even in Japan, Zen has become just a scholarly study. Zen is not a scholarly study. Zen is an existential quantum leap. It…

— OSHO

A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is…

— Alexander Gardner

I've always been fascinated by Japanese culture.

— Sarah Michelle Gellar

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.

— Stephen Gardiner

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is…

— Alain Ducasse

It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is not particularly…

— Frederick Lenz

“some Japanese philosophers have been eager to graft the newly introduced discipline of western academic philosophy onto its premodern Japanese antecedents. The conflict with…

— James W. Heisig

Japan is very cosmopolitan - it values its origins, but a world view hovers above this narrow perspective. The interest of the Japanese in…

— F. Sionil Jose

I got interested in Zen when I was a teenage beatnik on the streets of San Francisco. And it was my interest in Zen,…

— Sam Hamill

The samurais were very interested in Zen because they admired the tremendous precision that the Zen Masters had, their lack of fear and pain…

— Frederick Lenz

I've loved Japanese culture for a long, long time, from doing martial arts, to the block prints, to the music. It's a country that…

— Alexandre Desplat

Spiritual space is lost in gaining convenience. I saw the need to create a mixture of Japanese spiritual culture and modern western architecture.

— Tadao Ando