Shin Buddhism November 17, 2009
Posted by Philip Ryan in : Buddhism, Japan, Pure Land , trackback
We put together a page with some articles on Shin Buddhism from the pages of Tricycle, as well as links to (and excerpts from) other places. Among the highlights:
Beyond Religion: An interview with Rev. Dr. Alfred Bloom
Essential and Pure: Core Principles in Shin Buddhism by Jeff Wilson
And there’s lots more. Please take a look, and feel free to suggest other links, books and resources!
Check it out here.
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This is a great resource - thanks! It’s nice to see this little-understood school of Buddhism getting some mainstream attention. I enjoyed the recent interview with Taitetsu and Mark Unno and hope to see more articles on Shinran’s gentle path in Tricycle’s pages in the future.
Hi,
Nice work! Thank you! The page is so good that I’ve linked to it from the nembutsu on my sidebar. Wonderful.
Another link you might want to consider for the page is “Echoes of the Name”:
http://jodoshinshubuddhism.wordpress.com/
With palms together,
Marcus
ooops, it seems the page has been flooded by spam comments:
http://www.tricycle.com/web-exclusive/jodo-shinshu-way-shinran
eenager in Pakistan is feeling right now does not come naturally in the sense of visceral response. It does, however, make intellectual sense; the world is moving to a point where, if only out of self-interest, we need to think about that person. One virtue of some of the religious traditions is that they have well-worked-out procedures for assisting this intellectual process. In other words, it’s one thing to realize logically that my fate is intertwined with the fate of Muslims around the world: If they’re unhappy, they’ll eventually make me unhappy. But it’s another to feel designer wedding dressit, to look at someone and get a deep sense of fraternity with them. That’s where religious practice plays an important role. In Buddhism there is metta [loving-kindness] meditation, in which we cultivate compassion for all sentient beings. This sort of practice is what I would consider a product of cultural evolution.
Hello, thanks for a nice effort. I’ve been a Shin follower for the last thirty years, lay speaker, temple assistant and writer…my blog “Meditations from the slow lane” can be found at jerrybolick@blogspot.com–contains short essays on Shin and assorted poems.
Namuamidabutsu
thanks you
You will have to crawl very nice,owe you gratitude..