Buddhist Temple of San Diego Celebrates 100th Anniversary
Justin Whitaker
24 September 2026
The temple reflects on survival through wartime incarceration while looking toward its next century
Rotten Trees with Rotten Cores
Sensei Alex Kakuyo
23 September 2026
Sensei Alex Kakuyo teaches us that karma is not cosmic punishment, but instead, like hidden rot in a tree, the effects of our actions may take time to reveal themselves
IBS Launches Dialogue Series Between Black and Asian-American Buddhist Leaders
Justin Whitaker
17 September 2026
IBS launches a seven-part dialogue on race, culture, and Buddhism in the United States covering topics from incarceration, cultural erasure, and domination to solidarity and the Jodo Shinshu experience
Japanese Shin Buddhism in Hawaiʻi Faces Declining Membership and Temple Closures
Justin Whitaker
1 September 2026
Shin Buddhist leaders are debating how to reach younger and more ethnically diverse communities
Book Review: Thus Taught Master Shichiri: One Hundred Gems of Shin Buddhist Wisdom
Johan Nilsson
20 June 2025
This posthumous work by the late Rev. Dr. Inagaki Hisao examines the teachings of a Shin Buddhist master of the 19th century
Jingtu Zhenzong: Jodo Shinshu among Ethnic Chinese, Part Two
Johan Nilsson
23 November 2024
A conversation with Singaporean Shin Buddhist Clement Tan launches this series of interviews with international leaders of Shin sanghas
Jingtu Zhenzong: Jodo Shinshu among Ethnic Chinese, Part One
Johan Nilsson
1 March 2024
A conversation with Singaporean Clement Tan launches this series of interviews with international leaders of Shin Buddhist sanghas
A Pure Land on the Rhine: Rev. Marc Nottellmann and the Eko House
Pearl Delores Smith Farmer
22 December 2023
Rev. Marc Nottellmann of Eko House in Düsseldorf speaks with BDG at the 20th European Shin Buddhist Conference
Sangha Luso-Hispana Jinen-kô: An Online Shin Buddhist Community
Pearl Delores Smith Farmer
13 November 2023
An online sangha brings the Jodo Shinshu tradition to a Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking audience with Dharma talks, rituals, and connection
Book Review: The Making of American Buddhism
Hozan Alan Senauke
26 August 2023
Hozan Alan Senauke explores the insights and implications for Buddhism in the US raised in a remarkable new book by Scott A. Mitchell
Buddhist Temple in Hawai‘i Celebrates 125 Years of Service
Justin Whitaker
18 October 2022
The Kona Hongwanji Buddhist Temple has served generations of Shin Buddhists on Hawai‘i’s big island
Swiss Shin: Reverend Ducor and Switzerland’s Only Shin Buddhist Temple
Ruth Nilsson-Ladner
27 July 2022
Introducing the only Shin temple in Switzerland and its priest