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American Buddhist Study Center

Our passion is to introduce Buddhist Values and Japanese culture. We will have interviews with authors, scholars, ministers, and artists. There will also be discussions and, to liven things up, we will have live performances.

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00:08:37

Weekly Wasan - Episode 55 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/06/10

Hi Dharma-friends! In this episode, we read five more verses of the Pure Land Hymns on the Right, Semblance, and Last Dharma Ages. Shinran further explains his understanding of how only by completely relying (in Shinjin) on Amida's Vow to Liberate All can beings in this Last Dharma Age realize awakening. It is Amida's directing of virtue for going forth from the Pure Land and returning that makes this possible. How grateful we are! Next time we'll continue with five more verses by Shinran Shonin

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00:08:12

Weekly Wasan - Episode 54 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/06/03

Hi Dharma-friends, Welcome back to Weekly Wasan! Today, continue listening to the Shōzōmatsu Wasan or Hymns of the Dharma Ages with five more verses. Shinran reflects in this group on the present age - the Last Dharma Age - and its difficulties and challenges. Mired, as we are, in an endless and futile go-round of striving for Awakening through our own limited efforts, we find ourselves stuck. However, Shinran says that, when we receive the true cause of birth in the Pure Land from Śākyamuni and

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00:11:35

Weekly Wasan - Episode 53 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/05/27

Hi Dharma-friends! This episode's verses from the Pure Land Hymns on the Right, Semblance, and Last Dharma Ages are very powerful and are among my favorite expressions of the Dharma by Shinran Shonin. Shinran is telling us not to worry that our own limitations due to distractions and self-indulgence are too heavy for Liberation. The Light of Amida's Vow of Wisdom is like a great torch illuminating a dark place. That Light is boundless and reaches everywhere. Because saying the Name,

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00:09:24

Weekly Wasan - Episode 52 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/05/20

Hi Dharma-friends! Today let's listen to five more verses in the collection "Pure Land Hymns on the Right, Semblance, and Last Dharma Ages." in today's group, Shinran explains how the Nembutsu teaching is a function of Wisdom. Our own aspiration for Awakening is in itself caused by the compassion of Śākyamuni and Amida for sentient beings. Amida entrusts his selected Primal Vow (the Nembutsu) to the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, Mahāsthāmaprāpta. It is Mahāsthāmaprāpta (Wisdom) who nurtures us on the Pure

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00:08:21

Weekly Wasan - Episode 51 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/05/13

Hi Dharma-friends! Today we hear 5 more verses from this collection by Shinran Shonin. A striking image in these verses is Shinran's comparison of those who now follow the Nembutsu path with Maitreya Bodhisattva. Maitreya Bodhisattva is the next fully enlightened Buddha after Śākyamuni who will appear in the world when causes and conditions are right to do so. Nembutsu followers, saying the Name of Amida Buddha through Shinjin, realize the same Awakening or Enlightenment as Maitreya when this

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00:11:28

Weekly Wasan - Episode 50 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/05/06

Hi Dharma-friends! This is our fiftieth episode! Today let's listen to five more wasan verses in the section entitled "Pure Land Hymns on the Right, Semblance and Last Dharma Ages." Shinran really gets into the nitty-gritty of his understanding of the Buddha's teaching for our times. Amida Tathagata has directed his Primal Vow universally towards sentient beings. When ordinary people of this Last Dharma Age entrust themselves to this Vow and abandon their limited self-powered efforts to achieve

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00:10:45

Weekly Wasan - Episode 49 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/04/30

Hi Dharma-friends! In this episode of the Shōzōmatsu Wasan, we hear 5 more verses. Shinran, in the earlier verses, having described in somewhat bleak terms the difficulties of the situation in which we find ourselves in this latter Dharma Age, now turns to the way open to us: entrust ourselves to the Vow of Amida Buddha (Unmeasured Light and Life) to liberate all beings through the Nembutsu, become reborn into Amida's Pure Land, and thereby enter into Awakening ourselves with others through the

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00:10:09

Weekly Wasan - Episode 48 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/04/21

Hi Dharma-friends! In this episode, we continue the section "Pure Land Hymns on the Right, Semblance and Last Dharma Ages." Shinran is really making the case that he finds himself (and, therefore, we also find ourselves) in the Last Dharma Age - a very difficult time to find Awakening for ordinary beings such as us. Shinran is impressing upon us the need to entrust ourselves to the Primal Vow and say the Name, Namo-Amida-Butsu. That is the one guaranteed way to enlightenment. As Shinran says "...The

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00:11:50

Weekly Wasan - Episode 47 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/04/16

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00:10:38

Weekly Wasan - Episode 46 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/04/01

Hi Dharma-friends! In this episode, you can listen to the opening verses of the Shōzōmatsu Wasan collection. These poems are from the end of Shinran's life when he was around 85 years old. There are 116 verses in the collection. The core of the book consists of 56 wasan on the Dharma-Ages, "Pure Land Hymns on the Right, Semblance, and Last Dharma Ages." Shinran taught from the perspective that he was living at the beginning of the Last Dharma-Age, when only the teaching of Śākyamuni survived

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00:11:55

Weekly Wasan - Episode 45 - Kōsō Wasan (Hymns of the...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/03/19

Hi Dharma friends, This episode concludes Shinran's verses on his own teacher, Master Genkū (Hōnen) of Japan, the seventh master in Shinran's Jōdo Shinshū lineage. In these verses, Shinran reverently recognizes Hōnen as a manifestation of Amida Buddha and describes his passing in terms familiar from the entry of Śākyamuni Buddha into Nirvana. Shinran concludes the Kōsō Wasan collection with two concluding verses. In the first, the teachings of all seven masters are summarized and restated: When

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00:07:54

Weekly Wasan - Episode 44 - Kōsō Wasan (Hymns of the...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/03/12

Hi Dharma friends! Today's episode contains five more Wasan verses by Shinran Shonin on Master Genkū (Hōnen), who lived in Japan 1133-1212 CE. Hōnen was Shinran's personal teacher, and in these verses, he reiterates how Hōnen is the embodiment of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas teaching the Pure Land Way (that is the Way of Nembutsu). Having received this wonderful and guaranteed teaching from such a great master himself, our teacher Shinran is saying that we too should follow the same way with

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00:08:55

Weekly Wasan - Episode 43 - Kōsō Wasan (Hymns of the...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/03/05

Hi Dharma-friends, We continue with five more Wasan verses by Shinran Shonin on his own teacher Master Hōnen, also known as Master Genkū. Hōnen lived 1133-1212 CE in Japan and was Shinran's personal teacher. Shinran's devotion to Hōnen was profound, even to seeing him as manifestations of Mahāsthāmaprāpta, the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, and Amida Buddha himself. Shinran wishes us to understand the profound import of Hōnen's teaching and to say Nembutsu ourselves with complete confidence. Next time we

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00:09:50

Weekly Wasan - Episode 42 - Kōsō Wasan (Hymns of the...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/02/26

Hi Dharma-friends! In this episode, we begin the section of the Kōsō Wasan on Master Genkū, also known as Master Hōnen. Hōnen (1133-1212 CE) is the seventh master in Shinran's Jōdo Shinshū lineage. Hōnen was Shinran's personal teacher, and Shinran -- although a great master himself and the founder of Jōdo Shinshū -- never regarded himself as anything other than a true disciple of Hōnen. Master Hōnen was a very distinguished Tendai monk and was famed as a master of the entire Buddhist canon of

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00:09:40

Weekly Wasan - Episode 41 - Kōsō Wasan (Hymns of the...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/02/19

Hi Dharma-friends! In this episode, we conclude the section of the Kōsō Wasan on Master Genshin, who lived in Japan 942-1017 CE. He is the sixth master in Shinran Shonin's designated Jōdo Shinshū lineage. Master Genshin greatly popularized the Nembutsu teaching in the Japan of his day, and Shinran greatly admired him. He is known as the master who distinguished the "fulfilled" and "transformed" lands, always encouraging us to rely on saying Amida's Name of the Primal Vow and thereby ensuring our own

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00:10:15

Weekly Wasan - Episode 40 - Kōsō Wasan (Hymns of the...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/02/12

Hi Dharma-friends! Today we begin Shinran Shonin's Wasan verses on the Sixth Master in the Jōdo Shinshū lineage: Master Genshin. Shinran moves from China to Japan with Genshin. Genshin lived from 942-1017 CE and was a Tendai monk on Mt. Hiei (as were Shinran's own teacher Master Hōnen and Shinran himself for a long time). Genshin was really huge in making the Pure Land teaching popular in the Japan of his own day. Shinran greatly admired Genshin's virtue and broad learning. He regarded Genshin as a

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00:10:46

Weekly Wasan - Episode 39 - Kōsō Wasan (Hymns of the...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/02/04

Hi Dharma friends! In this episode, we conclude our traversal of Shinran Shonin's Wasan verses on Master Shan-tao of China (613-681 CE). Shan-tao was so important to Shinran's understanding of the Buddha Dharma. In this group Shinran again affirms that true-entrusting or awakening, which he calls "Shinjin," arises from the spontaneous working of Amida's Primal Vow through Nembutsu. After reflecting on the various obstacles this teaching has encountered, Shan-tao and Shinran urge us to persevere and

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00:09:27

Weekly Wasan - Episode 38 - Kōsō Wasan (Hymns of the...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/01/28

Hi Dharma-friends, In this episode, you can listen to 5 more of Shinran's Wasan verses on Master Shan-tao of China (613-681 C.E.) Building on what he said previously, Shinran further describes the qualities of diamond-like (or doubt-free) Shinjin or true entrusting -- how it alone fulfills Śākyamuni Buddha's intent as well as the teaching of the other Buddhas for ordinary people in our present circumstances. We are taught to remember that this diamond-hard confidence is not our own doing but is part

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00:09:03

Weekly Wasan - Episode 37 - Kōsō Wasan (Hymns of the...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/01/21

Welcome back, Dharma friends! In the episode, you can listen to the next group of 5 Wasan verses based on the writings of Master Shan-tao (613-681 CE). This group contains some wonderful images by Shinran conveying his understanding of the Buddha Dharma through Shan-tao's thought. One is "diamond-like Shinjin," or leaving our own blind passions and relying exclusively on the power of the Primal Vow. Another powerful image is that of Śākyamuni and Amida as our own father and mother, guiding us by any

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00:11:21

Weekly Wasan - Episode 36 - Kōsō Wasan (Hymns of the...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/01/14

Hi Dharma friends! Today we cover 5 more of Shinran Shonin's Wasan verses on Master Shan-tao (Zendo in Japanese). Shan-tao (613-681 CE) lived in China and is the Fifth of the Seven Masters, making up the Jōdo Shinshū lineage. We learned in the last episode that one of the most basic contributions of Shan-tao to Shinran's thought is how simply saying or vocalizing the Name of Amida Buddha is the only essential practice for Awakening or Enlightenment. In today's group of verses, Shan-tao teaches that

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