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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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00:17:11

ABSC podcast with Rev Dr Aaron Proffitt

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2026/01/15

Enjoy the informal and informative discussion with Rev Dr Aaron Proffitt on his journey from the land of Jack Daniels to being a Professor, writer, Dr and now a Shin Buddhist priest and some of his funny and memorable experiences

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00:08:38

Discussion with Bun Yoshikami - author of "Rice Country"

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2025/01/09

Please join me in this fascinating journey and story of Bun Yoshikami - the author of "Rice Country - A Social History and A Search for Identity in Americans of Japanese Ancestry"

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00:09:05

ABSC Podcast with Prof Ken Horii

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2024/12/10

Join us in an engaging discussion with Ken Horii, an artist and professor emeritus of Spatial Dynamics at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence and an advisor to the American Buddhist Study Center

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00:17:24

ABSC Podcast with Rev Gary Jaskula

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2024/09/20

Hope you enjoy this informal discussion with Rev Gary Jaskula on his journey to Buddhism, the focus on "Come as you are" and some light hearted examples of his experiences

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00:05:25

Podcast with Rev Kurt Rye

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2024/05/18

Enjoy this exciting discussion with Rev Kurt Rye, resident minister at the New York Buddhist Church. Listen to his journey, learnings and his association with Buddhism and Japanese culture

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00:09:46

An interview with Priya Kumari

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2023/02/24

Hoshina Seki interviews Priya Kumari, author and publisher of children's books. In this interview, Priya talks about how she started writing children's books and then setting up her own publishing company Eternal Tree Books. Even though her books are for kids 3 to 8, she adds a workbook at the end for parents and teachers. Take a listen; I think you will enjoy it.

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00:09:49

An interview with Priya Kumari

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2023/02/24

Hoshina Seki interviews Priya Kumari, author and publisher of children's books. Priya's books are all beautifully illustrated, heartwarming stories about Buddha and Indian culture. These books are meant to teach children the values of gratitude and compassion. Please take a listen, I think you will enjoy it.

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00:05:54

Weekly Wasan - Episode 68 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/09/29

Hi Dharma-friends!Welcome back for the conclusion of our traversal of the Shōzōmatsu Wasan or Hymns of the Dharma-Ages. , These verses are among Shinran's last public thoughts and are particularly trenchant, even for such a fearless guy as Shinran. In these verses, Shinran looks directly into the mirror and identifies himself as a fellow foolish being of this last dharma-age, our dharma-age, the time when the teaching alone remains, but the self-power practices and realization have become extinct

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00:06:38

Weekly Wasan - Episode 67 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/09/22

Hi Dharma-friends, This episode is a little different than others in the series because it is a prose passage inserted into the collection instead of verses. It is like a little Dharma talk or message from Shinran himself. It is known as "On Jinen Hōni" Jinen Hōni is often rendered into English as "naturalness." By way of introduction to this very basic Shin Buddhist concept of "naturalness," a definition by Rev. Mark Unno found online is very helpful: "The foolish being is always contriving or

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00:08:10

Weekly Wasan - Episode 66 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/09/17

Hi Dharma-friends, In this episode we continue with 5 more verses of the Shōzōmatsu Wasan known as "Additional Hymns of Lament on the Term Hotoke." Hotoke commonly means "Buddha." According to the commentary found in The Collected Works of Shinran (CWS), "Probing into the origins of the term, Shinran traces it back to an early critic of Buddhism, Mononobe no Moriya (d. 587), who opposed its introduction into Japan. According to Shinran, Moriya applied the term, with the meaning "sick with fever," to

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00:09:05

Weekly Wasan - Episode 65 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/09/09

Hi Dharma-friends! Today let's conclude the section entitled "Gutoku's Hymns of Lament and Reflection" by listening to the last five verses. These are poems of a very personal nature by Shinran, reflecting his awareness of himself as someone sharing the deepest weaknesses of his age. This is the Last Dharma-Age, and we are in the same boat. Shinran calls out high-ranking monks and dharma teachers of his time who are said to be so in-name-only. Showing no self reflection, they often give themselves

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00:09:14

Weekly Wasan - Episode 64 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/09/01

Hi Dharma-friends! Today you can hear 6 more verses of "Gutoku's Hymns of Lament and Self-Reflection," part of the Shōzōmatsu Wasan. Shinran wrote these verses toward the end of his life, when he was around 85 years old. They are profound expressions of his own self-reflection. He also calls out the various deficiencies, as he sees them, of this own age. Particularly, he laments a superficial adoption of the Buddhist Teaching by both monks and laity. Significantly, he recognizes these same

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00:08:13

Weekly Wasan - Episode 63 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/08/25

Hi Dharma-friends! Welcome back after a brief hiatus! This episode is the start of the next section of the Shōzōmatsu Wasan. It is called "Gutoku's Hymns of Lament and Reflection" in sixteen verses. This episode contains the first five of these. These sixteen verses as a whole are a particularly deep personal self-reflection by Shinran. Please recall that the Shōzōmatsu Wasan are the product of Shinran's final years, written when he was about 85 years old. The commentary in The Collected Works of

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00:09:19

Weekly Wasan - Episode 62 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/08/04

Hi Dharma-friends! In this episode, we conclude the section of the Shōzōmatsu Wasan called "Hymns in Praise of Prince Shōtoku" with six more verses. As you know, Prince Shōtoku (574-622 CE) promoted Buddhism in Japan throughout his life and was greatly revered because of this. Shinran was personally very devoted to him. Shinran associates Prince Shōtoku with Avalokiteśvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion, and believed that he appeared in Japan providentially as the world was entering the last

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00:07:26

Weekly Wasan - Episode 61 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/07/29

Hi Dharma-friends! In this episode, we begin the next section of the Shōzōmatsu Wasan called "Hymns in Praise of Prince Shōtoku" in eleven verses. This episode covers the first 5 Wasan in this section. Prince Shōtoku (574-622 CE) is fondly remembered in Japan as having established the imperial government on a firm footing and also for vigorously promoting Buddhism there in his lifetime. Shinran had a profound personal devotion to Prince Shōtoku. The commentary in the Collected Works of Shinran tells

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00:08:49

Weekly Wasan - Episode 60 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/07/22

Hi Dharma-friends! This episode contains the concluding 7 verses of the section "Hymns on the Offense of Doubting the Primal Vow" Throughout this section, Shinran has been encouraging us to entrust wholeheartedly, without any reservations at all, in the Primal Vow of Amida Buddha to bring all beings to awakening in his Pure Land. Clearly, Shinran is trying very hard to make an impression about having absolutely no doubts or reservations! But, as foolish beings, we always have such reservations when

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00:10:00

Weekly Wasan - Episode 59 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/07/15

Hi Dharma-friends! In this episode, let's continue with eight more verses in the section entitled "Hymns on the Offense of Doubting the Primal Vow." Shinran's purpose in this entire section is to encourage us to wholeheartedly entrust in Amida's Primal Vow to bring all beings, especially those of us living in this last Dharma-Age, to liberation in the Pure Land. We will conclude this part next time. Until then, please be well, always saying -- following Shinran's advice -- Namo-Amida-Butsu. Check

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00:10:38

Weekly Wasan - Episode 58 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/07/08

Hi Dharma-friends! In this episode, we begin the next section of the Shōzōmatsu Wasan entitled "Hymns on the Offense of Doubting the Primal Vow." There are 23 verses in this part, and today you can hear the first eight. In this section, Shinran is focusing on "doubt," which is a key feature of his understanding. Shinran teaches that in this last Dharma-Age, only the teachings of the Buddha remain. Ordinary beings lack the capacity and conditions to put these teachings into practice by their own

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00:08:19

Weekly Wasan - Episode 57 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/06/24

Hi Dharma-friends! In this episode, we conclude the first part of the Shōzōmatsu Wasan, the collection known as "Hymns on the Right, Semblance, and Last Dharma-Ages." Shinran encourages us ordinary beings of this Last Dharma-Age to take refuge in Amida's Great Vow and say the Name and, thereby, attain liberation through Power-Beyond-Self. Shinran teaches that awakening or liberation through self-power practices is futile in this Last Dharma-Age in which we find ourselves. Note the last verse, No

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00:08:26

Weekly Wasan - Episode 56 - Shōzōmatsu Wasan (Hymns...

American Buddhist Study Center ·

2022/06/18

Hi Dharma-friends! Today you can listen to five more verses by Shinran in the collection Pure Land Hymns of the Right, Semblance, and Last Dharma Ages. Shinran reinforces his understanding of Power-Beyond-Self as Amida's directing of virtue for going forth and return. How fortunate for us to hear this teaching! Amida, though great love of sentient beings, directs virtue for our going forth. We attain great compassion thereby which, Shinran explains, is Amida's directing of virtue for our return. We

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