Li's Voyage #zen temples in Kyoto, Japan 1⃣️我的旅行记之京都禅寺院

Hello my dear Steemit friends, today I'm gonna talk with you about kyoto, Japan.

As many people know, Kyoto has more than 1, 200 years long history and is regarded by the Japanese as a spiritual home town. In the ancient time, the religion of Buddhism and Taoism were spreading in Japan and blending with native Japanese religion Shinto.

亲爱的steemie朋友们，今天要跟大家聊的是日本京都。正如很多人所知道的京都有一千两百多年的历史，被日本人视为精神故乡。由我国传来的佛教和道教及日本自古信仰的神道在这里经过千年的传承与发展，已经深深的沁入京都的每一寸土地中，并形成属于自身的独特禅宗文化。

There are many zen temples in the foothills around Kyoto, which are surrounded by green mountains. There are not many visitors going to the temples, so the temples in the mountains are all so quiet, visitors can spend the whole day to practice spiritual.

Most Japanese temples' hall are open by three sides, they use the empty space bringing out the beauty of natural. Most temples still use the simple paper window, and no Buddhist status, mostly just hang a Chinese calligraphy which is "Buddha", or zen poems.

京都周边山麓有许多禅寺院，都是隐于山中被绿野环绕。这些禅院游人很少，静静的坐在那里完全感受得到那种与世无争的闲寂，旅行者可以选择花一天的时间进行禅修。

厅堂都是三面开放式的，用简洁的空间衬托突出自然，瓦屋纸窗，不供奉佛像，多是简单的挂着一副“佛”字书法，或是笔触疏朗的禅诗，地上铺着草席，四周被密林和池塘环绕。

In the courtyard, along with the four seasons, the spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the landscape also changes, in the spring meeting the cherry blossoms, in the summer surrounded by green, in autumn watching the maple leaf dye forest, in winter watching plum blossoms fall in the snow.

在庭院里看春夏秋冬四季，风景轮流变化，春逢樱花飘落，夏是绿意盎然，秋有枫叶染林，冬看梅雪清绝。若有骤雨沛然下来，感觉更是非常空灵。

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Unlike in Europe, Japanese courtyard focuses on natural beauty, they don't do perfect gardening. Their architectural aesthetic is "the nature and man unites as one".

This feeling of life and seasons made the Japanese form their particular aesthetic consciousness which called mono-no-awares. It also influenced on Japanese Buddhism.

与欧美的花园不同，日本的庭院着重自然美感，很少去精心修剪花草，他们的建筑美学讲究天人合一。地上都覆盖着厚厚的青苔，光线在暗绿的青苔上面移动，忽明忽暗之间也都是美感。 对生命和自然的感悟使日本人萌生出独具特色的审美意识，这种审美情结在中文中被称为“物哀”，物爱的传统美学也深深的影响到了日本佛教。

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