Tea being a beverage that is preferred by millions of people has helped it to
become universal in the East and West. In the East, the material and philosophical
natures of tea drinking seem in most cases to have been disseminated together.
This is true not only of tea utensils, production methods, and methods of drinking,
but is a convincing argument for the common tea-drinking customs seen across
borders of many countries in conjunction with Buddhism and tea’s place in rites
and ceremonies. Although we did not discuss Zhu Xi’s Jia li (Family Rituals,