Japanese Chef Campaigns to Preserve and Share the Buddhist Dining Tradition of Shojin Ryori
Jnan Nanda
8 January 2018
Health and mindfulness in devotional dining
Expressions of Emptiness: The Paintings and Sculptures of Yoshio Ikezaki
Meher McArthur
6 December 2017
Using ki, water, and ink to express impermanence
Dr. Kanae Kawamoto Discusses Theravada, Buddhist Studies, and Healing Society
Raymond Lam
9 November 2017
Buddha’s perspective on suicide and Theravada…
Stillness and Strength: The Great Buddha of Kamakura
Meher McArthur
2 October 2017
The city of Kamakura in Japan’s Kanagawa Prefecture is home to one of the most poetic and paradoxical works of Buddhist sculpture. The statue is
Journeying Across Shikoku: The Shikoku Pilgrimage
Zephyr Chan
25 August 2017
Japan is the land of the rising sun and hopelessly polite people. On the surface, it appears to be a secular country, but if one
Shakubuku! The Advent of Nichiren Buddhism in India
Aspi Mistry
18 August 2017
When one looks at the revival of Buddhism in India, it seems remarkable that of all the various Buddhist schools that sprouted up in Japan
The Story of Zhanran, Tiantai’s Ninth Patriarch
Zephyr Chan
21 July 2017
A life combating philosophical errors and spreading the…
The Religion of the Future
Anam Thubten Rinpoche
21 July 2017
A recent report by the Washington, DC-based Pew Research Center projects that some of the world’s major religions are going to expand, with the notable
Who Am I — Self-discovery in Japanese Zen Practice
Gereon Kopf
26 May 2017
The Japanese Zen master Dōgen (1200–53) famously said, “To study the Buddha way is to study the self.”* A popular meditation manual known and used
Senso-ji: A Buddhist Temple for the People
Meher McArthur
13 April 2017
Japan’s most visited Buddhist temple is not one of the peaceful Zen temples, with their minimalist rock and gravel gardens, or even Todai-ji in Nara, with
Buddhistdoor View: Mahayana Buddhism’s Unique Place in History and Chinese Civilization
Buddhistdoor Global
13 January 2017
Pristine Pure Land teacher Master Jingzong (b. 1966) once wrote about why he would not want to be born anywhere else except in China: “For all
The Many Forms of Avalokiteshvara
Meher McArthur
25 November 2016
To many practitioners of the Mahayana schools of Buddhism of East Asia and the esoteric traditions of the Himalayas and Japan, bodhisattvas, or “enlightenment beings,”