Buddhist food

Nun Seonjae’s popular cooking class has over 2,000 on waiting listAbout 40 middle-aged women and a few men were all eyes and ears as Buddhist nun Seonjae relat

Kenchinjiru and other (Buddhist) Shojin Ryori Recipes

Originally created as Buddhist temple cuisine, Kenchinjiru (Japanese Vegetable Soup) is a clear soup cooked with root vegetables, tofu, shiitake, and kombu stock. It’s a well-balanced and flavorful soup for a meatless meal on a cold night. {Vegan}

Meet the monks tending to Japan's temples of the seasons.

Consider taking a few bites of wisdom from Gesshin Claire Greenwood, and reading "Just Enough; Vegan Recipes and Stories from Japan's Buddhist Temples.

Japanese monks are teaching a new generation of chefs to use seasonal ingredients – and zen principles – to elevate their cooking. Contributor Abigail Leonard reports from Tokyo on Buddhist cuisine.

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Buddha's delight, or lo han jai, is a vegetarian dish well-known in Chinese and Buddhist cuisine. Use our family recipe for an authentic take on this dish.

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Korean Temple food

Image source: http://www.takaosan.or.jp/english/img/takaozen.jpg What is shojin ryori? Shojin ryori is a type of cooking commonly practi...

In South Korea, Buddhist temple food is viewed the way spa food is in the U.S.: curative, cleansing, perhaps even medicinal. Buddhist nuns have preserved these cooking techniques for 1,600 years.

General Tso's Chicken minus the chicken

Buddha Jumps Over the Wall Soup is a variety of shark fin soup in Fujian cuisine.Since its creation during the Qing dynasty the dish has been regarded as a Chinese delicacy known for its rich taste,and special manner of cooking.The dish's name is an allusion to the dish's ability to entice the vegetarian Buddhist monks from their temples to partake in the meat-based dish, and implies that even the strictly vegetarian Gautama Buddha would try to jump over a wall to sample it.It is high in…

A couple from the Kham region of Tibet have made their restaurant a comfortable, familiar place for the community in Jackson Heights.

Andrea Miller interviews vegan chef Jean-Philippe Cyr, also known as The Buddhist Chef, about cultivating compassion for everyone — including animals.

Take a cue from one of the most compassionate and inspiring human beings.

Koichi went on a month long buddhist monk diet adventure to bring you this giant guide on the ins and outs of shojin ryori. The vegetarian diet of Japanese monks.