Antariksa Antariksa
Lecturer at Department of Architecture Faculty of Engineering - Brawijaya University

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SPACE IN JAPANESE ZEN BUDDHIST ARCHITECTURE Antariksa Antariksa
DIMENSI (Journal of Architecture and Built Environment) Vol. 29 No. 1 (2001): JULY 2001
Publisher : Institute of Research and Community Outreach, Petra Christian University, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.9744/dimensi.29.1.%p

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The beginning in the medieval period the ideas "emptiness" and "nothingness" in Buddhist doctrine influences over the Japanese. Space in Japanese architecture (kukan), as a empty place. This word originally stood for a "hole in the ground", and in on present meaning of a "hole in the universe", or "sky". The ancient Japanese divided space vertically into two parts, sora (sky) and ame or ama (heaven). In the concept of emptiness both of this above it can be said is a part of space. This paper will tries to explain and discusses about the meaning of space in Japanese Zen Buddhist architecture.