BUDDHA AND THE MAN - by Eikichi Ikeyama
This book has been skillfully translated from the original Japanese by Dr. Toshikazu Arai, an internationally oriented Buddhist writer. Nietzsche and Goethe were profound influences on Professor Ikeyama, who spent the early years of the twentieth century studying in Europe. His search for the meaning of Shin Buddhism in his own life was so intense that he subtitled this text, "Milestone."
ISBN 0-0938474-09-X 62 pages $8.95
SHOSHINGE: - The heart of Shin Buddhism - by Alfred Bloom
Alfred Bloom writes in a clear, everyday style about the meaning and content of the sutra, Shoshinge, Shinran's thirteenth century poetic description of the origin, content, and joyful entrusting of what he saw as the ultimate insight of Mahayana Pure Land Buddhism.
ISBN 0-938474-06-5 108 pages $8.95
TANNISHO, - A Shin Buddhist Classic - Translated by Taitetsu Unno, Professor of Religion at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Universities and colleges from coast to coast find this beautiful translation of one of Japan's most popular religious and literary classics a useful text in Comparative Religion, Buddhist Studies, Asian Studies, and general multicultural courses in the Humanities. Dr. Unno, one of America's leading Shin Buddhist scholars, is an absorbing writer whose sensitive translation, and accompanying commentary has also made this an extraordinarily popular book with Shin Buddhists everywhere.
ISBN 0-938474-04-9 quality paper $8.95
RESOURCE FOR MODERN LIVING: TANNISHO - by Alfred Bloom
A few copies of this first edition of Alfred Bloom's best-selling existential interpretation of the Shin Buddhist classic Tannisho are still available.
ISBN 0-938474-00-6 102 pages quality paper $8.95
THE BUDDHIST WORLD OF AWAKENING - by Takamaro Shigaraki
A clear and incisive exploration of Shin Buddhism (Jodo Shinshu) that is widely used in colleges and universities offering courses in Asian studies, Buddhist studies, or Comparative Religion. The freshness of Shigaraki's approach has also drawn a large general readership. This book has recently been translated into German and Polish.
ISBN 0-938474-02-2 86 pages $8.95
BODHISATTVAS EVERYWHERE - by T. Sakakibara, translated by T. Arai
A moving account of what one perceptive Buddhist teacher sees as the reality of his life as a soldier in China, a husband left with an infant child to raise, a priest torn between tradition and his yearning to live a meaningful life. Reflections in the setting of 1000 year old Jojuji temple in the hills above Kyoto, cover the wide range of Sakakibara's thoughts on education, violence, genetic engineering, and how it is that he sees bodhisattvas everywhere.
ISBN 0-938474-03-0 63 pages $8.95
ONE MAN'S JOURNEY, - a spiritual autobiography - by Kazuo Miyamoto
A rich reflection on living in the worlds of East and West by a Honolulu physician who experienced and appreciated both. The candor and sensitivity of this Hawaii-born, mainland educated nisei, his deep Buddhist commitment, and his vivid writing style appeal to readers young and old.
Now in second printing.
ISBN 0-938474-01-4 120 pages $8.95
AJATASATRU: THE STORY OF WHO WE ARE - by Shoji Matsumoto and Ruth Tabrah
This is the first easy-to-read translation of the Nirvana sutra episode relating the ancient tragedy of a son murdering his father, and searching for a way to live with what he regrets having done. This story is timeless, a historic incident in which modern men and women can find everything they want to know about themselves, about human nature, and the compassion and wisdom of the Buddha. A new century sutra is how the authors view this third section of Shinran's master text, Kyo-Gyo-Shin-Sho.
ISBN 0-938474-07-3 71 pages $8.95
SHIN SUTRAS TO LIVE BY - a new century publication edited by Ruth Tabrah and Shoji Matsumoto
Modem English translations of the three basic sutras of Shin Buddhism: Shoshinge, Sanbutsuge, and Juseige plus an explanation of the meaning and value of sutra chanting. a translation of eko, and a new century homage. A basic English language resource of Shin Buddhist ritual.
ISBN 0-938474-12-X 45 pagers paper $4.95
also available on audio cassette. $2.95
MEMOIRS OF A BUDDHIST WOMEN MISSIONARY IN HAWAII- by Shigeo Kikuchi
Both for those in women's studies and for Hawaiiana buffs as well as for those curious about the role of a Buddhist missionary. these memoirs give a unique picture of rural life in early twentieth century Hawaii. Wedding customs, the sending off to war of nisei boys in World War 1, the cooperative nature of life in an early plantation community, and the fortitude of a woman missionary living on the edge of poverty, are portrayed with the author's Buddhist focus which enable her to live through the most difficult conditions with inner strength and serenity.
ISBN 0-938474-13-8 73 pages $8.95
LIVING SHIN BUDDHISM - by Ruth Tabrah
A deeply moving account of one of the twentieth century's most profound and direct nembutsu teachers. Rev. Masao Hanada gives the essence of Shinran's Shin Buddhist way through an account of how he himself became a truly human being. Second printing 1994.
ISBN 0-934174- 15-4 27 pages $2.95
AN INTRODUCTION TO SHIN BUDDHISM - by T. Shigaraki
A paper bound booklet that is exactly what the title implies: a brief analysis of the role of religion in modern life and the nature of Shin Buddhism as contemporary religious focus.
Also available in large print.
ISBN 0-938474-11-1 $2.95
THE PATH OF AWAKENING - by Kosho Soga
A collection of dharma talks for everyday life, of special appeal to those in their twenties and thirties. The author, who is in that age group himself, writes in a powerful way about the meaning of Shin Buddhism in this modern, scientific, nuclear age. Confronted by the deaths of a young cousin and a beloved grandfather, he comes to an understanding and personal acceptance of the religious path he earlier rejected .
lSBN 0-938474-07-3 63 pages $8.95
THE NATURAL WAY OF SHIN BUDDHISM - by Shoji Matsumoto and Ruth Tabrah
This book takes the reader on a fascinating journey into how Buddhism began in India 25OO years ago, the teaching of Amida Buddha on which Pure Land Buddhism is based, and the way in which the thirteenth century poet and teacher Shinran opened a new horizon in Mahayana Buddhism. Both for those encountering Pure Land Buddhist thought for the first time, and those for whom it has been an inherited tradition, this book provides a contemporary view of Shinran's creative insights and their potential for men and women seeking a meaningful, non-discriminating, scientifically compatible, non-theistic religious focus. Reviewer George Gatenby says this is "a book by people who clearly live the way they describe and delight in a treasure to all who own it, a resource to return to many times."
ISBN 0-938474-14-6 176 pages $9.95
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