Zen Gardens: What Really is a Zen Style Japanese Garden? I was reading an article about Japanese gardens where the author got all bent out of shape about how western culture mistakenly refers to “dry landscape” style gardens in Japan as “Zen Gardens”. Their point was that the term “Zen Garden” has become loosely defined only because historically, some Zen Buddhist Monasteries built Karesansui style gardens and therefore, all dry landscape gardens are “Zen style”. So I did some research and found the following.

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