Dozens of square windows puncture the corrugated steel shell of this barn-like Buddhist meditation centre in a rural part of the Netherlands by Dutch architects Bureau SLA (+ slideshow).

Text description provided by the architects. The Buddhist Meditation Centre Metta Vihara is located in Hengstdijk - a small village near the Belgian border - in a remotearea of the Netherlands.

There, the group commemorated the grand opening of the Tâm Từ Metta Vietnamese Buddhist temple – among the largest in the Bay Area — on the southern edge of Morgan Hill. The event ...

Metta meditation is a type of Buddhist meditation. In Pali — a language that’s closely related to Sanskrit and spoken in northern India — “metta” means positive energy and kindness ...

Metta close mettaThe Buddhist term for loving kindness. A pure love which is neither grasping nor possessive. means loving kindness. Buddhists attempt to show loving kindness towards others and ...