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Buddhist Scholar Duncan Ryuken Williams Wins Prestigious Grawemeyer Religion Prize

Justin Whitaker 14 December 2021

Williams documented the sorrows, hopes, and lives of many of the 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry imprisoned in the United States during WWII

American Shin Buddhist Minister Retires with Final Message on Gratitude

Justin Whitaker 18 November 2021

A Japanese American Shin Buddhist minister offers history and view toward gratitude

From france24.com

Buddhists Among Those Welcoming Pope Francis in Thailand and Japan

Justin Whitaker 20 November 2019

Pontiff spreads message of inter-religious dialogue

Draping the lei from the Oshima family on the cannon at Fort Sill’s Bentley Gate. Photo by Linda Morris

What American Buddhism Looks Like: Solidarity for Immigrants at Fort Sill

Duncan Ryuken Williams 20 August 2019

Healing past traumas by standing up for migrant…

Dr. Duncan Ryuken Williams. Image courtesy of Duncan Ryuken Williams

American Sutra: On the Incarceration of Japanese Americans in WWII

Harsha Menon, MA, MFA 23 May 2019

An interview with author Duncan Ryuken Williams

Japanese Americans arrive at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from San Pedro, 1942. Evacuees lived at this center at the former Santa Anita race track before being moved inland to relocation centers. From archives.gov

The Birth of an American Form of Buddhism: The Japanese-American Buddhist Experience in World War II

Justin Whitaker 9 May 2019

The evolution of Japanese Buddhism in America