Part of a special section on Buddhist Chaplaincy in the United States and Japan. Editors’ note: Dr. Elaine Yuen served as chair of the master of divinity program at Naropa University. Cross-trained as a meditation teacher, Buddhist chaplain, and public health researcher, she continues to teach and is interested in how social contexts inform spiritual and contemplative care practices. Dr.…
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Caring For Ōtsuchi Town After the Great East Japan Earthquake
Part of a special section on Buddhist Chaplaincy in the United States and Japan. Editors’ note: Rev. TAKAHASHI Eigo is abbot of Kōryūzan Kichijōji temple in the coastal town of Ōtsuchi in northern Japan. In this essay he shares his experiences of providing spiritual care to the town’s residents in the wake of the Great East Japan Earthquake on March…
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Reconsidering “Buddhism”: Do Our Lives Come to Nothing After Death?
Part of a special section on Buddhist Chaplaincy in the United States and Japan. Editors’ note: Professor KIGOSHI Yasushi teaches at Ōtani University, a private university in Kyoto, Japan, with an emphasis on Shin Buddhist studies. In addition to being an alumni of the university, Professor Kigoshi served as president from 2016 to 2022. Unique among the Japanese authors contributing…
Reflections on My Experiences Working as a Death Row Chaplain in Japan
Part of a special section on Buddhist Chaplaincy in the United States and Japan. Editors’ note: Rev. HIRANO Shunkō has served as a prison chaplain among death row inmates at Tokyo Detention House for more than forty years. He is a priest of the Jōdo Shinshū Honganji sect and the former abbot of Chūgenji temple in Ichikawa, Chiba. He is also the…
Book Reviews
Book reviews in this volume include: Rethinking Meditation: Buddhist Meditative Practices in Ancient and Modern Worlds. By David L. McMahan. Oxford University Press, 2023.Reviewed by Dhivan Jones, University of Chester Learning from the West, Learning from the East: The Emergence of the Study of Buddhism in Japan and Europe Before 1900. Edited by Stephen Kigensan Licha and Hans Martin Kräme.…