temple walls
Ryuten Paul Rosenblum


“The contents of each moment as well as the moment itself may have a wild, mysterious, yet to be explored quality, fresh and pure. It is a purity that is not about being free from defilements. Prior to preconceptions, purity is about either being this way or that. It manifests as a deep intimacy where we are able to see ourselves in each thing, and may allow our meeting others / each thing to be expressed uniquely as us.”_Ryuten Paul Rosenblum

Ryuten Paul Rosenblum Roshi is a lineage holder in the Zen Buddhist tradition of Dongshan and Dogen, and he began making photographs in 2011. The significance of the visual arts in Ryuten’s life has been developed and refined by decades of Zen practice and temple life. This practice life is rooted in qualities such as spaciousness, impermanence, stillness, clarity, intimacy, incompleteness, simplicity and the absence of pretension grounded in the mysterious uniqueness of each in the present moment.


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Limited Edition, 100 copies
2017
14.5 × 23.5 cm
48 pages
Hardcover / Accordion binding
ISBN 978-89-97605-21-7

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