Paul Discoe: Tea Gate

This is a time-lapse video of the construction of the Happy and Bob Doran Tea Gate at the Yale University Art Gallery captured between July 28th - August 7th, 2015. Located just outside the Gallery’s Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Lecture Hall, the Tea Gate, built by master temple-builder and ordained Buddhist priest Paul Discoe, is a space for quiet contemplation and reflection. In Zen Buddhism, the gate is a symbolic marker of the moment one leaves the day-to-day world to enter the sacred space of the temple. Discoe described his creation as a “gateless gate, a gate to nowhere except for everywhere.