These essays are devoted to an investigation of designed sacred landscapes. They serve as grounding for gardens designed by TALES of the EARTH. These sacred places express various ways that landscapes reinforce one's physical, mental, emotional and spiritual place on the earth. The following essays present research that, taken together, provide a spiritual journey to very special places.
Contents
Methodology for Design of Sacred Landscape
Design of Sacred Landscape for a Spiritual Community (1)
Design of Sacred Landscape for a Spiritual Community (2)
Designing the Contemplative and Healing Garden: Teachings from Sacred Landscapes
Six Auspicious Signs of the Sacred Landscape
Precedents for Proper Siting
Foundations for Design of Sacred Landscape
Sacred Spaces: A Profile of Dennis Winters
From H.H. The Dalai Lama to Vimalakirti Sutra
From Vimalakirti Sutra to Designing Sacred Landscapes
A Meditation for Cultivating the Awakening Mind
Journeys to Sacred Landscapes
Sacred Landscapes and the Evolution of Meditation Gardens in the Buddhist Tradition
Journey to Bodhgaya: Garden of the Enlightenment
Journey to the First Buddhist Landscapes
Karst Topography of China
Notes from Huang Shan
Designed Sacred Landscapes: A Study of Pretapuri in Western Tibet
Case Studies
Toronto East General Hospital Rooftop Garden
Terrace Garden Helps Toronto East General Hospital Unit Become a Home
Ecologically Based Landscape Design
Landscape, Garden and Feng Shui
Methodology for Ecologically Based Landscape Planning
Landscapes of Dragon Boats
Presence
The Luck of Wind and Water
Dilemma of the Dharma (1): Competition
Dilemma of the Dharma (2): Time on my Side
If Dragon Boats had Ears: Listening to a Ship of Fools
Here and Now in Shanghai: Soliloquies at the Start