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Upcoming Book Discussions
In the coming weeks we’re aiming to have a couple of new book discussions (see here for previous ones). The books will be Shohaku Okumura’s Realizing Genjokoan and Kemmyo Taira Sato’s Great Living. In the case of the latter book there is a possibility that we might be able to raise any questions that arise with Sato-sensei himself at some [...]
Favourite Dharma Books 2008-10
We haven’t had a ‘Favourite Dharma Books’ post on this site since 2007 so I think it’s about time to review what books we’ve been appreciating since then! Personally I’ve not bought a lot of new books during this period as I’ve been trying to get deeper into the resources I already have at hand. [...]
Link: World Wisdom On-Line Library
World Wisdom a publisher I highly recommend for the quality and variety of its output has a fine selection of articles , including a variety of Buddhist and specifically Jodo Shinshu related writings, in it’s on-line library. Worth checking out.
Physiognomy
This is just something that amused and intrigued me … I recently started reading 三四郎 Sanshirō by Natsume Sōseki (夏目 漱石) and in the novel it is noticeable that the protagonist’s first-impressions of other people tend to be based on a kind of physiognomy. What is interesting though is that he equates certain features with different religious [...]
Book Recommendation: ‘Buddha-dharma’
A couple of years ago I bought a large tome called Buddha-dharma which is a compendium of sutra passages published by the wonderful Numata Foundation. Initially I found it a little frustrating as the translators don’t always use the most common English equivalents for doctrinal terms; and so it is not always clear from which [...]
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