A pair of Japanese national treasures that are considered among the world’s most important Zen Buddhist masterpieces are heading to San Francisco this week, where they will be part of a ...

“The Buddha, the Godhead,” he writes, “resides quite as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain or in the petals of a ...

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Robert M. Pirsig, the author of philosophical novel “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance,” has died. He was 88. Pirsig passed away at his home in South Berwick, Maine, on Monday, The New York ...

Musician and bona fide grandmaster James Nyoraku Schlefer will show off his eclectic talent on the shakuhachi — a traditional Japanese wooden flute — in a performance sure to get plenty of one hands ...

MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota — Fifty years ago, the book "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values" became an instant hit. The late Robert Pirsig — a Minnesota native — was behind ...

The Los Angeles Housing Department has paid thousands of dollars to a Zen Buddhist priest from Hawaii for management training that includes teaching breathing with sphincter control, learning “how to ...

Pirsig's publishing house, William Morrow, announced that he died Monday at his home in South Benwick, Maine. By The Associated Press Robert M. Pirsig, whose novel Zen and the Art of Motorcycle ...