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Jul 25, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
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Let's celebrate Jodo Shinshu Buddhist musicians! Here's a collage of Pure Land Buddhists rocking out.

Rev. Joseph Jarman: Jazz legend and Jodo Shinsh...
Bodhi Tree Band: The Bodhi Tree Band plays o...
New Dharma Band: The New Dharma Band plays a...
Cherry Blossomz: Popular musical trio The Ch...
Seattle Betsuin saxophone buskers: Two men play saxophones in ...
Bad Karma: Bad Karma, a band consistin...
Seattle Betsuin Ukulele Band: The Seattle Betsuin Ukulele...
Rev. Yuki Sugahara: Jodo Shinshu minister Rev. ...
Mark Yamanaka: Mark Yamanaka plays his ele...
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Jul 10, 2022
"On Venerating Problematic Patriarchs," a thread about the specific ways that Jodo Shinshu honours great sages of the past.
Yesterday, a tweeter tried to play "Gotcha" by claiming that homophobic hate should be acceptable in contemporary Jodo Shinshu because we honour Vasubandhu as a patriarch of the Pure Land way, whom the poster characterized as homophobic.
The tweet wasn't in good faith: it was a deflection attempt to shift the goalposts in a conversation after the poster was caught out with clear evidence that his position (defending an excommunicated bigot as non-homophobic/non-racist) was untenable.
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Yesterday morning, the Idaho-Oregon Buddhist Temple (Jodo Shinshu) caught fire. There is damage throughout, but the worst is confined to the basement; the main hall primarily has smoke damage. The altar was mostly spared. Details about how to help will be forthcoming A photo of firefighters outside the Idaho-Oregon Buddhist Te
The temple got its start in 1942, when Japanese Americans were put into concentration camps. Farms in the Treasure Valley needed labour; internees who agreed to work were released from the incarceration camps and sent to farm labour camps instead. The formal temple opened in 1947
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Apr 24, 2022
American Buddhist immolates himself to protest climate crisis inaction, following in the footsteps of Vietnamese monks during the Vietnam War and Tibetans in Chinese-occupied Tibet. Namandabu, namandabu, namandabu.
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"The self-burning of Vietnamese Buddhist monks in 1963 is somehow difficult for the Western Christian conscience to understand.
"The Press spoke then of suicide, but in the essence, it is not. It is not even a protest. What the monks said in the letters they left before burning themselves aimed only at alarming, at moving the hearts of the oppressors and at calling the attention of the world...
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Apr 24, 2022
@kodonishimura Nishimura Kodo grew up in a Pure Land Buddhist temple family. Labeled male, attracted to men, feeling both masculine and feminine, drawn to make-up, and other "female" things, he didn't fit conventional categories. This raised issues during his monastic training.
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"Men always step with their left foot and women with their right. But as someone who identifies as both male and female, what should I do?..."
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"There was a well-respected master who came to teach us [in the monastery]...The highly respected master was waiting for me. My heart was beating frantically. I was completely terrified but I asked my question anyway:"
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@BuddhismViews is the author of the new "An Introduction to Engaged Buddhism." In the book and a recent Twitter thread, he wrestles productively with the somewhat obscure nature of the term "engaged Buddhism," which is usually ascribed to Thich Nhat Hanh.
In the second half of 1963, TNH published an essay series titled “Aujourd’hui le Bouddhisme” in the new Parisian journal Tin Tuong. They were collected, edited, and published in Paris in 1964 as “Aujourd’hui le Bouddhisme,” his first book in a European language.
In “Aujourd’hui le Bouddhisme” he says things like:
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Oct 6, 2021
Midwest Buddhist Temple successfully requested support from the Social Welfare Fund of the Buddhist Churches of America for 3 Chicago-area nonprofits this year. Please consider making your own donation in honour of their good work.
Apna Ghar provides services for victims of gender violence, and works to combat the causes of such violence. They particularly focus on immigrant, refugee, and marginalized community needs. BCA's donation of $5000 will buy 20 Chromebooks for clients.
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Sarah's Circle provides shelter to homeless women and those who need a safe space. The temple supports them on a monthly basis with sandwich bags and hot dinners. The BCA donation of $5000 will support interim housing needs due to COVID-19.
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