The author describes religious practise of Rinzai Zen monastery in today´s Japan, its outer form and underlying principles. Japanese Buddhism is organized as a structure of head temples with its subtemples, where resident zen priests perform religious rituals for their parishioners. It is a zen monastery, where religious training of those wishing to become a zen priest takes place. A army-like strictness of Rinzai monastery has its own sense. By rigorous daily regime, minute formal principles, zen meditation and koan practise monk is learning to forget himself and behave according notion of no-self. For a zen monk this means years of self-denying and pain but should finally lead to a kesho (awakening). and Obsahuje poznámky a seznam literatury