The Institute of Buddhist Studies provides graduate level education in the entirety of the Buddhist tradition with specialized instruction supporting Jodo Shinshu Buddhist ministry.
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Contributors Spring 2003
Andrew Cooper [“Modernity’s God-shaped Hole,”] reflects: “Knocking around among various Buddhist schools, I was struck by how each particular story of the path seems to elicit congruent experiences. In other words, Zen folks have Zen experiences, Vajrayanists have Vajrayana experiences. Entering this process entails faith - that is, one allows oneself to be seized by the story. Today, traditional religious narratives bump up against each other, and against competing narratives from the secular world, with a force and frequency that is altogether new. So the religious question of our historical moment, it seems to me, is not what faith one holds but how one holds one’s faith.” More » -
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Contributors Summer 2005
Gary Thorp (Shelter from the Storm) tells us: “I’ve always looked at Buddhism and nature, not as two separate entities, but as two different ways of seeing the same thing. Descriptive writing about the relationship between Buddhism and nature is part of our long heritage, and it is a great challenge to try to do this kind of writing well. More »
