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
The article deals with one of the traditional Sufi rituals, hadra, in the context of the religious practice of the successful contemporary tariqa, or Islamic mystical order, Naqshbandiyya Haqqaniyya. The article is based primarily on my own observations and experiences from field work realized in various Haqqani communities between 2008 and 2009. Apart from the actual ritual of hadra, attention i salso paid to another, rather exceptional ritual connected with a relic of the Prophet Muhammad., Daniel Křížek., and Obsahuje seznam literatury
Název z obálky, "Západočeská galerie v Plzni, výstavní síň 13, Pražská 13, 18.2.-7.5.2015"--Zadní s. obálky, 300 výt., and Risk of Loyalty. Austrian, German and Czech Cultural Identities in the 19th Century Visual Art.