期刊名称：DIMENSI (Journal of Architecture and Built Environment)
印刷版ISSN：2338-7858
出版年度：2004
卷号：29
期号：1
语种：English
出版社：Institute of Research and Community Outreach - Petra Christian University
摘要：The beginning in the medieval period the ideas "emptiness" and "nothingness" in Buddhist doctrine influences over the Japanese. Space in Japanese architecture (kukan), as a empty place. This word originally stood for a "hole in the ground", and in on present meaning of a "hole in the universe", or "sky". The ancient Japanese divided space vertically into two parts, sora (sky) and ame or ama (heaven). In the concept of emptiness both of this above it can be said is a part of space. This paper will tries to explain and discusses about the meaning of space in Japanese Zen Buddhist architecture.
