Study Notes

Books we have discussed or annotated:

• Notes on Seikan Fukuma’s Monshin: Hearing/Faith
  (The Nembutsu Press, LA) – buy from BCA bookstore
• Notes on Kenryo Kanamatsu’s Naturalness
  (World Wisdom) – buy from Amazon
• Notes on Jitsuen Kakehashi’s ‘Bearer of the Light: The Life and Thought of Rennyo’
  (Pure Land Publications) – buy from BCA bookstore
• Notes on Toshikazu Arai’s Grasped by the Buddha’s Vow
  (Center for Buddhist Education 2008) – buy from BCA Bookstore
• Notes on Eikichi Ikeyama’s Buddha & Man
  Buddhist Study Center Press 1989) – buy from BCA Bookstore
• Notes on Dosho Port’s Keep Me in Your Heart a While: The Haunting Zen of Dainin Katagiri (Wisdom 2008)
  - buy from Amazon
• Notes on The Wholehearted Way: A Translation of Eihei Dogen’s “Bendowa” with commentary by Shohaku Okumura and Kosho Uchiyama (Tuttle 1997)
• Notes on introspective reading – Jishin

Doctrinal Study:

• Reflections on Amida Tathagata:
  • Amida is Change
  • Amida is a phase of shunyata

• On Hakarai & Cetanā
  
  
• Face-to-Face Oral Transmission (面授口訣の師 Menju kuketsu no shi), and more on this topic …

• Karma, Gadjin Nagao on …

• ‘Nevertheless deluded”
  
  
• Prayer (part 1), (part 2)

Historical Notes:

• Chikazumi Jokan (1870-1941)
• Jitsunyo Shonin
• Jōdo Shin Shū, On the Name of our Tradition
• Kakushi and Kakure Nembutsu, The Difference between them …
• Shinran Shonin’s ‘Last Words’
• Shinran’ Shonins ‘Saiho Shinansho’ (Biography of Honen Shonin)
• Yurenbo Ensho (1139-1177)

Textual Study:

• Buddhist Terminology, Comments on … by Kosho Uchiyama)
• Gaikemon (Ryogemon), Commentaries on …
• Shoshinge vs.23, l.1: The 3 Characteristics of Entrusting & Non-Entrusting
• “Kokoru eru” (“understand” / “get the heart of”)
• Lotus Sutra, Shin Buddhist Attitude towards …
  
• Pure Land, its nature, direction, …
• Religion of Weeds, The (Gummo no Shūkyō)

Jōdo Shinshū Bibliography:

• List of books on Shin Buddhism