What's New

• Three new pieces for Shakuhachi by Graham Ranft. Go to our music web site and scroll down. [27 April 2009]
• Article by Esho Shimazu
  The Sangowakuran Incident and its Significance for Engaged Buddhism
  [7 April 2009]
• Book Review by Mark Healsmith.
  Thus Have I Heard from Rennyo Shonin, (Rennyo Shonin's Goichidaiki-kikigaki) Translation by Zuio Hisao Inagaki. [6 April 2009]
• Book Review by Mark Healsmith.
  Traversing the Pure Land Path, A Lifetime of Encounters with Honen Shonin by Jonathan Watts and Yoshiharu Tomatsu. [29 March 2009]
• Book Review by Mark Healsmith.
  Pacific World, Journal of the Institute of Buddhist Studies
  Third Series, Number 7. [16 February 2009]
• Book Review by Mark Healsmith.
  The Other Buddhism, Amida Comes West by Caroline Brazier. [27 January 2009]
• Book Review by Mark Healsmith.
  Buddhism & Science, A Guide for the Perplexed by Donald S. Lopez Jr. [19 January 2009]
• New poems by Marcus Cumberlege [14 January 2009]
• Book Review by Mark Healsmith.
  Grasped by the Buddha's Vow, A translation and commentary on Tannisho by Toshikazu Arai [23 December 2008]
• Gratitude A Dharma Talk for Ho-onko 2009 by Rev Mark Healsmith. [12 November 2009]
• Book Review by Mark Healsmith.
  Shin Buddhism: Historical, Textual and Interpretive Studies , Edited by Richard K. Payne [27 October 2008]
• Book Review by Mark Healsmith.
  Buddhism and Psychotherapy Across Cultures, Essays on Theory and Practice, Edited by Mark Unno [28 August 2008]
• Book Review by Mark Healsmith.
  A Life of Serendipity: Blown by the Wind of Amida's Vow, Alfred Bloom [26 August 2008]
• Book Review by Mark Healsmith.
  Asura's Harp: Engagement with Language as a Buddhist Path, Dennis Hirota [22 May 2008]
• Two new shakuhachi pieces from Graham Ranft. [19 september 2007]
• New book review by Mark Healsmith: The Essential Shinran: A Buddhist Path of True Entrusting, ed. Alfred Bloom. [19 April 2007]
• New book review by Mark Healsmith: Rennyo & the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism, ed. Mark L. Blum and Shin'ya Yasutomi.[5 March 2007]
• New book review by Gregg Heathcote: The Zen Master, the Potter & The Poet by Milton Moon.
• New musical piece by Graham Ranft: Ekoh This piece was transmitted from Ichigetsuji, a temple in the Kanto region of Japan. Ekoh's meaning may be found in Buddhist concepts such as kusho, tamuke (hands folded together in gassho) , fuse (alms giving - Skt. dana) - and kishi.
  All of these ideas pertain to chanting sutras in commemoration of those who have passed from this world (shujo ekoh) as well as for one's own personal benefit (bodai ekoh). One should play this piece with an appropriate attitude and purity of intention. Played on a 2.85/F# jinashi shakuhachi made by Shugetsu Yamaguchi in Nara Japan.
  [5.43MB] (30 October, 2006)
• Dharma Talk given by Rev Gregg Heathcote at the headquarters of he Hongwanji Buddhist Mission of Australia for Gotan-e celebration in May this year. (29 May, 2006.)
• Book review by Rev. Dr. Mark Healsmith of Professor Shigaraki's new book, 'A Life of Awakening: The Heart of the Shin Buddhist Path'. (1 May, 2006)
• Dharma Talk by Rev Dr Mark Healsmith at the Hongwanji Hondo in Sydney on Hanamatsuri this year. (15 April, 2006)
• Wasui Tatsuguchi's 'A Study of Shin Buddhism' which was first published in 1963 by the Honpa Hongwanji in Hawaii. It is an extraordinary and ambitious work which undertakes a philosophical investigation into some major themes in Shin Buddhism. (1 March, 2006.)

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