AMIDAJI INTERNATIONAL TEMPLE 阿 弥 陀 寺

Click here to return to  Selected passages from Honen Shonin  with commentary In the province of Musashi there lived a samurai called Taro T...

(last update November 26th 2018 - scroll down to read) Question: Can a person who did not entrust to Amida Buddha during his life,...

Victory Banner - symbol of the victory of Buddha Dharma. People of shinjin are victorious   over death and rebirth, because they ent...

article connected to this collection of teachings Samsara is suffering - description and contemplation  of the six realms of samsaric ...

(this article is the 2nd part of The Four Profound Thoughts that Turn the Mind Toward the Dharma ) "This existence of ours is...

A friend of mine asked me to send him a few words on the occasion of  Obon festival , so I wrote these verses, which comprise the esse...

Meeting with Amida Buddha after being born in the Pure Land at the end of life (source: amidanet.com) Some say that we, nembutsu f...

Especially because you are an ordinary person, you can’t afford not to be sure where you go after death. So, if you encountered Amida’s ...

Question: What part of our mind goes to the Pure Land? Is it the mind we currently have, in others words is it who we are now that...

I myself cannot find any satisfaction with Buddhist teachings and practices that doesn’t promise me a quick escape from birth and deat...

"We should all quickly take to heart the matter of the greatest importance of the afterlife, entrust ourselves deeply to Amida ...

M said to me, „I am very sick, I haven’t felt well for two months, so I can’t practice”. But if you don’t practice *  when you are s...

When someone died very young a few years ago everybody was astonished. How could this happen? Why her? She was so young! This is ho...

There are many situations when you want to do something but your body doesn’t obey your wishes. Like for example, you would like to read ...

“Death barrier, what does it mean to you?” [1]  This question is like a koan. You have to answer it, but not using only your rational...