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
Samurai and Monks: Lessons in Impermanence
Gereon Kopf
24 March 2017
In the last few weeks, I have been teaching the Tale of Heike (Heike monogatari) to my students at Luther College. The Tale of Heike is central to Japanese
The Modernization of Faith and Ideology: Victoria Montrose Discusses Japanese Buddhism’s 19th Century Transformation
Raymond Lam
26 August 2016
Victoria Montrose (“Tori” to her friends, a fittingly Japanese epithet) has been immersed in Japanese culture since childhood. Victoria was four when her American father