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With the vision to create a ‘Mini-Japan’ in Gujarat, a Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) premises in Ahmedabad, were inaugurated virtually by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi. Showcasing elements of Japanese art, culture, landscape and architecture, the newly launched Zen Garden in Ahmedabad features a statue of Lord Buddha.
Built in partnership with the Japan Information and Study Centre at AMA and Indo-Japan Friendship Association (IJFA), Gujarat, supported by the Hyogo International Association (HIA), Japan, the garden mirrors the concept of the Zen gardens that were originally created for Buddhist monks to meditate and absorb the teachings of the Buddha.
With the vision to create a ‘Mini-Japan’ in Gujarat, a Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) premises in Ahmedabad, were inaugurated virtually by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi.
Currently, Zen gardens in Japan are serene places for putting the mind completely at rest in order to experience a state that is calm and tranquil. In fact Zen is meditation and Zen Garden and Kaizen Academy at Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) premises in Ahmedabad, aims at totally following the Zen in its essence, that is the art of seeing into the nature of one’s own being, and it points the way from bondage to freedom.
In many parts it copies the Rock Garden of Japan, which is a dry landscape garden, often called a Zen garden, that creates a miniature stylized landscape through carefully composed arrangements of rocks, water features, moss, pruned trees and bushes, and uses gravel or sand that is raked to represent ripples in water.