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Episode posted: 26 November 2012
Speaker & format: Paula Arai, Video
Tagged as: Domestic Dharma, Japan, Japanese religion, Numata lecture, Women
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Domestic Dharma: Beyond Texts, Beyond Monasteries, Numata Symposium 2012 Keynote Address by Prof. Paula Arai.
Creativity, flexibility, and accessibility are qualities characteristic of the Buddhist practices that women in contemporary Japan engage in as they weave healing activities into their daily life. Home-made ritualized activities, which draw upon and innovatively adapt age-old traditions, include common greetings turned into healing events, cleaning cloths performing medical mysteries, and poetry writing. In addition, this domestic Dharma often sees a loved one transformed into a Personal Buddha upon death, bestowing wise counsel and compassionate support.
Originally recorded on 22 September 2012
(c) 2012 The Institute of Buddhist Studies and Paula Arai
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Episode posted: 26 November 2012
Speaker & format: Audio, Paula Arai
Tagged as: Domestic Dharma, Japan, Japanese religion, Numata lecture, Women
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Domestic Dharma: Beyond Texts, Beyond Monasteries, Numata Symposium 2012 Keynote Address by Prof. Paula Arai.
Creativity, flexibility, and accessibility are qualities characteristic of the Buddhist practices that women in contemporary Japan engage in as they weave healing activities into their daily life. Home-made ritualized activities, which draw upon and innovatively adapt age-old traditions, include common greetings turned into healing events, cleaning cloths performing medical mysteries, and poetry writing. In addition, this domestic Dharma often sees a loved one transformed into a Personal Buddha upon death, bestowing wise counsel and compassionate support.
Originally recorded on 22 September 2012
(c) 2012 The Institute of Buddhist Studies and Paula Arai
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Episode posted: 26 November 2012
Speaker & format: Lisa Grumbach, Video
Tagged as: Domestic Dharma, Japan, Japanese religion, Numata lecture, Women
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Domestic Dharma: Beyond Texts, Beyond Monasteries, Numata Symposium 2012 Keynote Address by Prof. Lisa Grumbach.
An exploration of the roles of ordained women within the social and familial structures of medieval Japan. Focusing on the reasons women became nuns, their age at ordination, and the work they performed as nuns, Prof. Grumbach argues that women used ordination as a way to build and maintain homes rather than as a way to “leave home.” Autobiographical writings by women, historical and biographical information about nuns, and medieval literature are used to show that ordination and family life were not opposing categories for many women, suggesting that we need to revise our understanding of what it meant to be a “nun” in medieval Japan.
Originally recorded on 22 September 2012
(c) 2012 The Institute of Buddhist Studies and Lisa Grumbach
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Episode posted: 26 November 2012
Speaker & format: Audio, Lisa Grumbach
Tagged as: Domestic Dharma, Japan, Japanese religion, Numata lecture, Women
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Domestic Dharma: Beyond Texts, Beyond Monasteries, Numata Symposium 2012 Keynote Address by Prof. Lisa Grumbach.
An exploration of the roles of ordained women within the social and familial structures of medieval Japan. Focusing on the reasons women became nuns, their age at ordination, and the work they performed as nuns, Prof. Grumbach argues that women used ordination as a way to build and maintain homes rather than as a way to “leave home.” Autobiographical writings by women, historical and biographical information about nuns, and medieval literature are used to show that ordination and family life were not opposing categories for many women, suggesting that we need to revise our understanding of what it meant to be a “nun” in medieval Japan.
Originally recorded on 22 September 2012
(c) 2012 The Institute of Buddhist Studies and Lisa Grumbach
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Episode posted: 23 May 2012
Speaker & format: Audio, Franz Metcalf
Tagged as: graduation, Numata lecture
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The 2012 Graduation Commencement Address was delivered by Prof. Franz Metcalf and generously sponsored by the Numata Foundation. “Our Buddhadharma, Our Buddhist Dharma” explores our evolving Buddhist dharma in two senses. That is, it tries to begin clarifying dharma in the sense of (a) what the Buddhadharma, as teaching, is; and (b) what our dharma, as duty, is toward that Buddhadharma. While the former is a bottomless pit of circularity into which scholars may sink their careers, and the latter is a deepening chasm of responsibilities into which practitioners may throw their lives, the sinking and the throwing need doing. Treading (and thereby perhaps obliterating) one line between scholarship and practice, this address attempts to trace a path on which scholars and graduates may walk together, down into the darkness.
Prof. Metcalf is a teacher at the California State University, Los Angeles, and the author of numerous books applying Buddhist teachings to our everyday lives, including Just Add Buddha and Buddha in Your Backpack.
Originally recorded on 18 May 2012
(c) 2012 The Institute of Buddhist Studies and Franz Metcalf
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Episode posted: 29 March 2012
Speaker & format: Audio, Hisashi Tonouchi
Tagged as: Ryukoku Lecture, Shinran
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Spring 2012 Ryūkoku Lecture Series
Presented by Professor Hisashi Tonouchi, Ryūkoku University
True Teaching, Practice and Realization (Kyōgyōshinshō): its aim and the formation of Shinran’s Pure Land Teaching
The Jōgen Suppression and Shinran’s admonition against self-power (continued)
In Japanese with English translation.
An outline of the lecture series is available as a downloadable PDF in English or in Japanese.
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Originally recorded on 22 March 2012
(c) 2012 The Institute of Buddhist Studies
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Episode posted: 29 March 2012
Speaker & format: Audio, Hisashi Tonouchi
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Spring 2012 Ryūkoku Lecture Series
Presented by Professor Hisashi Tonouchi, Ryūkoku University
True Teaching, Practice and Realization (Kyōgyōshinshō): its aim and the formation of Shinran’s Pure Land Teaching
The Jōgen Suppression and Shinran’s admonition against self-power
In Japanese with English translation.
An outline of the lecture series is available as a downloadable PDF in English or in Japanese.
[5 of 6]
Originally recorded on 22 March 2012
(c) 2012 The Institute of Buddhist Studies
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Episode posted: 29 March 2012
Speaker & format: Audio, Hisashi Tonouchi
Tagged as: Ryukoku Lecture, Shinran
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Spring 2012 Ryūkoku Lecture Series
Presented by Professor Hisashi Tonouchi, Ryūkoku University
True Teaching, Practice and Realization (Kyōgyōshinshō): its aim and the formation of Shinran’s Pure Land Teaching
Birth through the nembutsu: Shinran’s explications of practice and shinjin (continued)
In Japanese with English translation.
An outline of the lecture series is available as a downloadable PDF in English or in Japanese.
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Originally recorded on 15 March 2012
(c) 2012 The Institute of Buddhist Studies
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Episode posted: 29 March 2012
Speaker & format: Audio, Hisashi Tonouchi
Tagged as: Ryukoku Lecture, Shinran
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Spring 2012 Ryūkoku Lecture Series
Presented by Professor Hisashi Tonouchi, Ryūkoku University
True Teaching, Practice and Realization (Kyōgyōshinshō): its aim and the formation of Shinran’s Pure Land Teaching
Birth through the nembutsu: Shinran’s explications of practice and shinjin
In Japanese with English translation.
An outline of the lecture series is available as a downloadable PDF in English or in Japanese.
[3 of 6]
Originally recorded on 15 March 2012
(c) 2012 The Institute of Buddhist Studies
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Episode posted: 29 March 2012
Speaker & format: Audio, Hisashi Tonouchi
Tagged as: Ryukoku Lecture, Shinran
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Spring 2012 Ryūkoku Lecture Series
Presented by Professor Hisashi Tonouchi, Ryūkoku University
True Teaching, Practice and Realization (Kyōgyōshinshō): its aim and the formation of Shinran’s Pure Land Teaching
Features and Critiques of Hōnen’s Pure Land Teaching (continued)
In Japanese with English translation.
An outline of the lecture series is available as a downloadable PDF in English or in Japanese.
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Originally recorded on 8 March 2012
(c) 2012 The Institute of Buddhist Studies
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