Word: sasaki
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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 died, she married Dr. Shigetsu Sasaki, a Japanese Zen roshi (teacher) whom she had met in New York City; she was widowed a second time...
...master and designed to wrench the mind free of ordinary thinking. (Sample koan: "A monk asked. 'Who is Buddha?' The master answered, 'Three pounds of flax.' ") Other meditation is devoted to breath control, plus a kind of concentration on nothingness and what Ruth Sasaki describes as "handling one's mind...
...Harvard Club of Boston tomorrow night. The Alumni Association of the Graduate School of Design is sponsoring the event. Earlier tomorrow, a panel discussion on "Art in Architecture" with take place at Rindge Technical School. Speakers will include Jose L. Sert, Dean of the School of Design; Hideo Sasaki, associate professor of Landscape Architecture; Gyorgy Kepes of M.I.T., and three other architects. An exhibit of Gropius' work, "Walter Gropius and Architecture Education at Harvard," is now on display at Robinson Hall (see picture at left). Examples of his earlier work and quotations outlining his philosophy of education and architure...
...Academy of Asian Studies. In Manhattan, the First Zen Institute of America is holding three meetings a week for some 100 members. In an aromatic garden in Kyoto, the first Zen study center in Japan for Westerners was formally opened this month. Last week its builder, Ruth Fuller Everett Sasaki, Chicago-born widow of a Zen teacher, announced that enough new U.S. students were expected so that a new meditation hall would have to be built to accommodate them. And the current issue of Vogue tips off its readers that People Are Talking About "the Columbia University classes...
Four professors, plus visiting experts, will give the school's third now course, Advanced Architectural Design, which is built around special projects in urban design. Dean Sert expects to work in conjunction with Assistant Professors Carlhian, Sasaki, and Ronald Gourley...