Orientation to Jade Mountains:
My first posting in 2003.

Transmission Lineage:
Orientation to Pilgrimage to East Asia. and a sample posting from Japan.

References to the Serene Reflection Meditation tradition (Soto Zen) In this case references to how the Transmission line works.

Contemplations/Teachings:
Four part series on Death, one, two, three, four.

Photo/poem series. This post comes at the end of eight or nine pictures of sheds around the monastery accompanied by a line or two of ‘My Precepts” by Zen Master Ryokan.

Extracts from readers emails + in this case a link to their blog.

Answering readers comments.

Recommendations and References:
Outside references relating to post. In this case on planning a Buddhist funeral.

Book recommendations. These are often embedded within the posting.

Photographs, Curiosities, Information:
Photo series. A series of eight photographs of walls around the monastery. This is the first of the series.

You can search the Archive by my location:
East Asia April 2005 – June 2005.
England June 2005 – September 2005.
Edmonton Canada September 2005 – July 2006.
California August/September 2006.
England (with short trips to The Netherlands and Germany) September 2006 – April 2008.
North America April 2008 – September 2008.
England September 2008 through September 2009 and into 2010.