Articles

G Sakamoto

Last October, at a delegates meeting of the Federation of Buddhist Women’s Associations, I challenged the participants in a workshop to rethink how we produce materials and share the Buddhadharma.

We no longer need to be tied to the model of printing materials that we’ve followed in the past. That model required a specific number of books to be ordered and printed by a publisher. The cost of each book often is related to the number of copies to be ...

New and Improved!

Reflections on the Betsuin Vision Statement

K. Ken Fujimoto

“To learn and to share the Jodo Shinshu understanding of the Three Treasures – Buddha, Dharma and Sangha”

The statement above is the new vision statement for our Betsuin. Though it is new to us as a temple, it is actually a restatement of the traditional basis for religious education in Jodo Shinshu, jishin kyonin shin (自信教人信), which is generally translated as “to have faith and to teach others faith” (more detail ...