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AMIDA-JI RETREAT TEMPLE ROMANIA IN JODO SHINSHU BUDDHIST TRADITION
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This blog is about my project to build Amida-ji temple. It also contains some of my articles, sermons and personal thoughts on Jodo Shinshu Buddhist teaching. Amida-ji temple (still under construction) belongs to Jodo Shinshu tradition, and my wish is to become a retreat (sesshin) center.
Recent Posts
No discrimination of women in the 35th Vow
A reader asked me about the 35th Vow of Amida Buddha in which he thought there is a discrimination of women. Here is the 35th Vow and my answer: the 35th Vow of Amida Buddha states: “If, when I attain Buddhahood, women in the immeasurable a...
Reactions to my critics of Rev Unno\'s writings (part2)
Another two posts on Rev Arai’s blog -- (1) and (2) --- will receive a reply here by two of my Dharma friends, Paul Roberts and Rick (Egen), who also gave a previous answer that you can read on the post "Reactions to my critics of Rev Unn...
Reactions to my critics of Rev Unno\'s writings
Dear friends in the Dharma, Recently, Rev Toshikazu Arai wrote two articles that you can read here and here as a response to the articles published on this blog about divergences from the Jodo Shinshu teaching contained in the books of Rev...
General statement to prevent rumors and false informations
Dear friends in the Dharma,I recently heard many complaints and reactions related with my uncompromising attitude in exposing and correcting what I call to be modern divergences from the Jodo Shinshu teaching. Some people wrote to me directly and I r...
The three Dharma ages
I will explain in this article, the teaching about the three Dharma ages by using various quotes from the last chapter of Shinran's Kyogyoshinsho.These quotes are Master Shinran's own words or passages from sutras and commentaries that he himself use...
A book by Rev Unno is dennied access to the library of Tariki Dojo
Someone wanted the book "Bits of Rubble Turn into Gold" by Rev Taitetsu Unno to be published and promoted in my country and I answered with a clear and definitive "NO".Why? Because some of the passages I found in it " are not in accordance with the...
