{"id":9352,"date":"2013-05-22T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-22T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=9352"},"modified":"2013-05-22T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-22T10:13:00","slug":"two-modern-buddhist-garden-designs-at-the-2013-chelsea-flower-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/two-modern-buddhist-garden-designs-at-the-2013-chelsea-flower-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Two modern Buddhist garden designs at the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qnWzF0eISrs\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After publishing six short videos on Buddhist gardens on this blog last week, you can well imagine that I was delighted to find two contemporary Buddhist-inspired garden designs at the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show: <em>The Sound of Silence<\/em> garden by Fernando Gonzalez and the <em>Mindfulness <\/em>garden by Martin Cook. Martin won a Gold Medal and Fernando a Silver-Gilt Medal &#8211; my explanation is that Fernando did not include flowers in his design. It is, after all, the Chelea <strong>FLOWER <\/strong>Show. My suggestion was that the wavy white mountains could stand in a lotus pond (following the traditional pattern of mandalas and mandala gardens). Congratulations to them both &#8211; I believe that Buddhist ideas have an illustrious future in gardens &#8211; less as representations of the Buddha than as interpretations of the Dharma. Fernando admires Japanese Zen gardens. They derive from Chinese ideas and I look forward to the day when Chinese landscape architects and garden designers recover their long-lost interest in Buddhist philosophy. That day will surely dawn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After publishing six short videos on Buddhist gardens on this blog last week, you can well imagine that I was delighted to find two contemporary Buddhist-inspired garden designs at the 2013 Chelsea Flower Show: The Sound of Silence garden by Fernando Gonzalez and the Mindfulness garden by Martin Cook. Martin won a Gold Medal and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352"}],"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=9352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}