Zen garden-design
Term coined in the West which seems to refer to many types of Eastern-inspired gardens supposedly influenced by Zen Buddhism, esp. Japanese garden-design. Examples would include the tea-garden, the stroll-garden, and sundry sand- and stone-gardens which have had such an impact on Western gardens. Chief characteristics included understatement, economy of means, borrowed landscapes, rock-placings, water, representations by means of rock-work of mountains, and responses to drawings of landscapes. Zen Buddhism focuses on meditation rather than prayer as a means towards Enlightenment, and so Zen garden-design evolved to provide suitable environments conducive to this activity, providing peace, beauty, and no distractions. (Curl & Wilson, 2016)