{"id":10879,"date":"2016-04-26T06:21:22","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:21:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=10879"},"modified":"2016-04-26T06:21:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T05:21:22","slug":"fernando-gonzalez-buddhist-approaches-to-the-design-of-gardens-and-landscapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/fernando-gonzalez-buddhist-approaches-to-the-design-of-gardens-and-landscapes\/","title":{"rendered":"Fernando Gonzalez&#8217; Buddhist approaches to the design of gardens and landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The photograph of Brighton beach, below, reminds me of Fernando Gonzalez&#8217;s Pure Land Garden:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10881\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chalk_flint_buddhism.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10881\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10881\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chalk_flint_buddhism.jpg\" alt=\"Flint meeting chalk on a beach is a symbol of impermanence - anicca&quot; width=&quot;900&quot; height=&quot;531&quot; \/&gt; Flint meeting chalk on a beach is a symbol of impermanence - anicca\" width=\"900\" height=\"531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chalk_flint_buddhism.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chalk_flint_buddhism-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chalk_flint_buddhism-768x453.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/chalk_flint_buddhism-624x368.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10881\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flint meeting chalk on a beach\u00a0(in Sussex)\u00a0is a symbol of impermanence &#8211; anicca&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Fernando \u00a0is \u00a0exploring the future role of Buddhism in garden design. The videos, below, have a comment on his 2015 Pure Land Garden and a 2013 interview with the designer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U9ZvSCiFqOY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fernando wrote\u00a0of the Pure Land Garden that: <em>A curvilinear white shimmering structure captures the organic shapes of the landscapes and is inspired by nature\u2019s natural rhythms. A planting colour palette influenced by the principal colours used in Buddhist art and ritual, warm yellows, oranges, blues and reds, emerge through a matrix of tussocky grasses. Three multi-stemmed Koelreuteria paniculata , golden rain trees, complete the well-being garden, exploring the potential of harmoniously combining the artificial and natural in a new artistic.<\/em><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qnWzF0eISrs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThis video shows two\u00a0contemporary Buddhist-inspired garden designs, at the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show: <em>The Sound of Silence Garden<\/em> Fernando Gonzalez (interviewed by Tom Turner) and the <em>Mindfulness garden<\/em> by Martin Cook (a stone-carver and calligrapher).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The photograph of Brighton beach, below, reminds me of Fernando Gonzalez&#8217;s Pure Land Garden: Fernando \u00a0is \u00a0exploring the future role of Buddhism in garden design. The videos, below, have a comment on his 2015 Pure Land Garden and a 2013 interview with the designer. Fernando wrote\u00a0of the Pure Land Garden that: A curvilinear white shimmering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10879"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10888,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10879\/revisions\/10888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}