http://www.daruma.or.jp/ (少林山達磨寺, Takasaki, Japan) Description: school: Ôbaku; location plan and travelling directions; introduction of the temple (history, buildings); detailed information on the temple's events; flash animation and photo gallery about the seasonal flowers in the temple garden; newsletter "FUKU" (pdf file, with archive); links; blog with news (external website); information on daruma (Bodhidharma, the temple's presage daruma; the change of presage daruma; usage of the daruma lucky charms); information about the Ôbaku school of Zen, its founder Yǐnyuán Lóngqí (Japanese: Ingen Ryūki), and its head temple Mampukuji; Zen glossary; information on Bruno Taut, a German architect who came to Japan in August 1933 seeking refuge from the Nazi ethnic cleansing campaigns and stayed in Takasaki from 1934 to 1936. Encoding: Shift_JIS Availability: free