Ryoan-ji rock garden

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Ryoan-ji rock garden
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It is a rock garden in famous Ryoan-ji which is historic relics
of a knowing country and is specially specified as the scenic spot.
It is a very simple Hojyo garden of only having put 15 stones on the inside
covered with the white sand of depth 25m of breadth of 10m.
As a dry landscape garden absorbed in the meditation which is the world of zen,
it is just going to absorb in meditation here calmly for a while.
Moreover, it is said that the garden here was extolled when it got twisted to the talk
and Queen Elizabeth of famous foolish Britain visited Japan in 1975.
If it says so, among those who are being absorbed in meditation in the Ryoan-ji rock garden,
the direction outside Japan can also be seen very well.
But since very many people were sitting on the veranda of Hojyo which can look at a garden,
the time of autumnal leaves was not also atmosphere where it was calmly absorbed in meditation.