Sagi Mai: Dance of the White Heron
Joseph Houseal
9 July 2022
Sagi Mai brings protection and blessings, just as the beautiful herons appear on the banks of the Kamo River in Kyoto
Japanese Buddhist Monk Writes Book to Support LGBTQ+ People
Justin Whitaker
24 March 2022
Kodo Nishimura teaches Buddhism through his own life and experiences as a LGBTQ+ monk
Women in Shugendo: Supporters, Leaders, or Both? Part 2
Alena Eckelmann
16 March 2022
Introducing Tatsumi Anju from Sakuramotobou, a Shugendo temple in Yoshino
Buddhist Temple Offers Refuge to Vietnamese in Japan
Justin Whitaker
7 December 2021
Thich Tam Tri, a Vietnamese Buddhist nun in Japan, is expanding her work helping Vietnamese workers in Japan
Connecting the Past and Present of Shugendo – The Revival of Japan’s Ancient Mountain Ascetic Tradition, Part Six
Alena Eckelmann
19 October 2021
The modern-day legacy of En no Gyoja
Book Review: Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude
Raymond Lam
20 September 2021
A new translation of one of Japan’s seminal poet-monks
Connecting the Past and Present of Shugendo – The Revival of Japan’s Ancient Mountain Ascetic Tradition, Part Five
Alena Eckelmann
16 September 2021
Exploring Shugendo’s oldest training trail in the Katsuragi Mountains
Connecting the Past and Present of Shugendo – The Revival of Japan’s Ancient Mountain Ascetic Tradition, Part Four
Alena Eckelmann
16 July 2021
Restoration of the Kumano Shugen, a Shugendo group in the Kumano area of Japan
Connecting the Past and Present of Shugendo – The Revival of Japan’s Ancient Mountain Ascetic Tradition, Part Three
Alena Eckelmann
1 June 2021
Pilgrimage to the future
Connecting the Past and Present of Shugendo – The Revival of Japan’s Ancient Mountain Ascetic Tradition, Part Two
Alena Eckelmann
19 March 2021
An interview with Prof. Caleb Carter of Kyushu University
Japan to Open Ancient Buddhist Pagoda to the Public for the First Time in a Decade
Craig C Lewis
8 January 2021
1,300-year-old pagoda to reopen after 10-year…
The Zen Masters of the Rinzai Tradition
Gereon Kopf
24 December 2020
Beginning a series of essays on the Zen masters of Japan