Portable Faith: Toward a Non-Site-Specific History of Buddhist Art in Japan > From small-scale shrines to handheld icons and votive tablets, portability has long factored into the design and reception of Buddhist art.

📰 Toward a Non-Site-Specific History of Buddhist Art in Japan (A free, 20-page article from 2023)

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Head from Colossal Statue of Guardian
wood, iron
18th century
Japan

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Letting Care Last Without Wearing Us Down - Buddhistdoor Global Bruno Wang explores how care can remain a source of strength rather than depletion over time through Pure Land principles

BDG Feature: Letting Care Last Without Wearing Us Down

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The Dharma of Music: Gagaku and Buddhist Salvation in Medieval Japan > The article outlines some of the ways in which professional musicians and music virtuosos among the aristocracy conceptualized gagaku and bugaku instrumental music in Buddhist terms between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries. > In addition to providing doctrinal justifications for artistic endeavors, they also contributed to the development of new ritual forms, such as bugaku hōyō and kangen kōshiki. > This article explores influential [Buddhist canonical ideas about music](/content/papers/sutra-of-druma-king-of-kinnara_rambelli-fabio) and shows how they were developed by musicians in medieval Japan.

📰 Gagaku and Buddhist Salvation in Medieval Japan (A free, 27-page article from 2021)

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Symphony Kūkai: The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Symphonic Tribute to an Esoteric Master - Buddhistdoor Global An esoteric Buddhist master's glorious life and legacy brought to musical life by the London Philharmonic Orchestra

BDG Feature: Symphony Kūkai: The London Philharmonic Orchestra’s Symphonic Tribute to an Esoteric Master

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Great Buddha Of Kamakura - Japan's Most Iconic Buddha Statue The Great Buddha of Kamakura (Kamakura Daibutsu) stands as one of the most iconic and revered. Learn its history, cultural significance, and how to visit?

Great Buddha of Kamakura – Japan’s most iconic Buddha Statue
The Great Buddha of Kamakura, known as Kamakura Daibutsu (鎌倉大仏), is the largest and one of the most iconic Buddha statues in Japan.
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The Emotional Toll of Wartime Bell Deployment in Japan > Because of the war, the mission of the Shōjuin bell swung drastically...

📰 The Emotional Toll of Wartime Bell Deployment in Japan (A free, 25-page article from 2023)

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I am yearning to see the properly, accurately and elegantly translated versions in Sinospheric languages including Chinese and English of this book "Night Conversations on Esoteric Buddhism" (密教夜話) by Abbot Mitui Eikō.

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We need to find someone we can consult on #JapaneseBuddhism for Reasons. (Of Tamamizu being interested in finding sect to follow.)

We should get a copy of the Kojiki and apply for shrine membership for Rei and Tamamizu, and find a subject matter expert on Japanese Buddhism to help Tamamizu find a sect that suits her. #shinto #buddhism #JapaneseBuddhism #YoukaiHeadmates

✨ Let us cross the deep mountains of delusion ✨

🪷 Awakening wisdom from Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi; 774–835 CE) 🪷

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Colorful blossoms may indeed be fragrant, / but someday they must scatter. / In this world of ours, who / can remain forever? / The deep mountain of conditioned phenomena— / today, let us cross. / No longer shall we experience shallow dreams, / nor shall we be intoxicated. — Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi; 774–835 CE)

🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Kūkai (Kōbō Daishi; 774–835 CE) 🪷

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American Occultism and Japanese Buddhism: Albert J. Edmunds, D. T. Suzuki, and Translocative History. > This essay focuses on Albert J. Edmunds, a British-American Buddhist sympathizer, and it considers the ways that Western occult traditions, especially Swedenborgianism, moved back and forth across the Pacific and shaped the work of D. T. Suzuki.

📰 Albert J. Edmunds, D. T. Suzuki, and Translocative History. (A free, 33-page article from 2005)

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When Buddhism Became a “Religion”: Religion and Superstition in the Writings of Inoue Enryō > In response, Buddhist leaders divided traditional Buddhist cosmology and practices into the newly constructed categories 'superstition' and 'religion.' Superstition was deemed 'not really Buddhism' and purged, while the remainder of Buddhism was made to accord with Westernized ideas of 'religion.'

📰 Religion and Superstition in the Writings of Inoue Enryō (A free, 26-page article from 2006)

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Buddhist Contramodernism: Shinnyo-En's Reconfigurations of Tradition for Modernity > Shinnyo-en's founders and their successors envisioned a particular strategy for being Buddhist in modernity, one which aligns with some, but not all, scholarly characterizations of Buddhist modernism. > As a result, Shinnyo-en and other lay organizations have largely remained on the margins of Buddhist studies despite their apparent popularity and proliferation. > This article offers a new category for theorizing and positioning such organizations as contramodern—connected with, but divergent from mainstream forms of Buddhist modernism.

📰 Shinnyo-En's Reconfigurations of Tradition for Modernity (A free, 19-page article from 2020)

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: The color of the mountains is Buddha’s body; the sound of running water is his great speech. — Dogen Zenji (1200–1253)

🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Dogen Zenji (1200–1253) 🪷

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Book Review: Neither Monk Nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism - Buddhistdoor Global Senior Buddhologist Richard Jaffe engages in a systematic and comprehensive study of Japanese Buddhism’s most remarkable phenomenon

BDG feature: Book Review: Neither Monk Nor Layman: Clerical Marriage in Modern Japanese Buddhism

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#Buddhism #BuddhistBooks #BookReview #BuddhistEthics #Zen #Japan #BuddhistHistory #JodoShinshu #Nichiren #Shinran #JapaneseBuddhism

Tales of Times Now Past: Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection > The *Konjaku monogatari shu* (今昔物語集) is a Japanese anthology dating from the early twelfth century. The original work contains more than one thousand systematically arranged tales from India, China, and Japan. It is the most important example of a genre of collections of brief tales which, because of their informality and unpretentious style, were neglected by Japanese critics until recent years but which are now acknowledged to be among the most significant prose literature of premodern Japan.

📕 Sixty-Two Stories from a Medieval Japanese Collection (A free, 215-page book from 1979)

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Many paths lead / From the foot of the mountain, / But at the peak / We all gaze at the / Single bright moon.— Ikkyu Sojun (1394–1481)

🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Ikkyu Sojun (1394–1481) 🪷

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Japanese Buddhism: A Cultural History > Buddhist temples were meant to be halls of truth, places where the Buddha’s teachings are imparted and practiced and centers where those whose lives are sustained by that truth can gather. But in the Edo period, temples came to be supported not by individual believers but by the parish, or *danka*, system. Temples became places where memorial services for parishioners’ ancestors were held...

📕 A Cultural History (A free, 204-page book translation from 2001)

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A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism > We explore how Japanese Buddhists of varying contexts drew upon Buddhist ideas and practices to make sense of their lives, to solve problems, and to create a meaningful world – a cosmos – out of chaos.

📕 A Cultural History of Japanese Buddhism (A free, 256-page book from 2015)

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Although I am lowly, not noble, my lowly station guides me to Bodhi [awakening]; Therefore, I should rejoice in being a human. — Genshin (942–1017 CE)

🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Genshin (942–1017 CE) 🪷

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La Jara Buddhist Temple Nominated for National Historic Designation as a Symbol of Japanese American Heritage in Colorado - Buddhistdoor Global Colorado’s La Jara Buddhist Temple, built in 1936–37 for Japanese American farmers, has been nominated for the National Register of Historic Places

BDG news: La Jara Buddhist Temple Nominated for National Historic Designation as a Symbol of Japanese American Heritage in Colorado

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: In Buddhism, we say it takes a strong back and a soft front. It takes tremendous strength of the back to uphold yourself in the midst of conditions. And that is the mental quality of equanimity. But it also takes a soft front—the capacity to really be open to the world as it is, to have an undefended heart. — Roshi Joan Halifax

🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Roshi Joan Halifax 🪷

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🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) 🪷

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Oh snail, / Climb Mt. Fuji, / But slowly, slowly! — Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828)

🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) 🪷

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即心記 Sokushin-ki (On the mind) > Of course, one who dies while sitting in zazen will never be unhappy. But it is nearly impossible to die in this manner if your body is suffering the pain of sickness. My own master (Gudō Kokushi) said, 'Your zazen for one sitting is a lifetime of zazen.' How edifying these words of his are.

📖 即心記 Sokushin-ki (On the mind) (A free, 47-page book translation from 1970)

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✨ The Dharma is all around you ✨

🪷 Gentle wisdom from Robert Aitken Roshi (1917–2010) 🪷

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Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Waking up in the morning / I vow with all beings / to be ready for sparks of the Dharma / from flowers or children or birds. — Robert Aitken Roshi (1917–2010)

🪷 Buddhistdoor Quote for Today: Robert Aitken Roshi (1917–2010) 🪷

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Jōkei and Kannon: Defending Buddhist Pluralism in Medieval Japan > the ritual texts and proselytizing efforts of Jōkei 貞慶 (1155–1213), a prominent monk in the Hossō 法相 school of the early medieval era in Japan. I will seek to interpret his personal devotion and evangelism in the context of broader ideological clashes taking place. More specifically, this study will ask how we should make sense of Jōkei’s gradually evolving devotional allegiance to Kan-non 観音 in the last ten or so years of his life. I will contend that Kannon served as the perfect symbolic foil for Jōkei to counter the popular senju nenbutsu 専修 念仏 (exclusive practice of the nenbutsu) teachings expounded by Hōnen 法然 (1133–1212) and the threat it represented to established Buddhism in Japan.

📰 Defending Buddhist Pluralism in Medieval Japan (A free, 18-page article from 2008)

Tags: #Philosophy #JapaneseBuddhism #Ritual