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Word: nanzenji (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stayed for six months; the next year she went back and put in a full year's study at Kyoto's Nanzenji Temple. Each day she rose at 5 a.m. to meditate for two hours before breakfast, then went to the temple to meditate from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a few minutes off for a meager lunch. After supper at home she would return to the temple for meditation with the monks until 9:30 at night, then return home, take a bath and meditate until bedtime, around midnight. In 1944. after her husband...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Zen Priest | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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