Buddha Buzz: Dating, Drugs, and Death
First off, Happy Lunar New Year! Welcome to the year of the dragon. As befits such a year celebrating a creature who is often associated with longevity, some Buddhist monks in Japan have a similar concern…
Shingon
Tricycle Retreat: Meditation in Motion
This post contains audio, video, or images. View media now Jill Satterfield has taught meditation and yoga exercises in a number of different traditions. For our February Tricycle Retreat, “Meditation in Motion,” which begins on Feburary…
Right attitude
Shinno Yamasoba, 58, is the vice head priest at Daijyo-ji, an an 8th-century Shingon temple three hours outside Kyoto by train. In the Japan Times, he shares some monkish wisdom with Japanese TV reporter Judit Kawaguchiwho:…
Buddhist Cafe Culture and “Happiness Classes”
Monks from Mt. Koya (Koyasan), a center of Shingon Buddhism, are coming into Tokyo to offer classes to harried city-dwellers in cafe setting. This immediately made me think of the city centers of American Zen Centers,…
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