Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism

Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism

15:07
Buddhism, Japan, Pure Land

Rennyo and the Roots of Modern Japanese Buddhism Rennyo is undeniably one of the most influential persons in the history of Japanese religio...

Buddha, Bees and the Giant Hornet Queen

Buddha, Bees and the Giant Hornet Queen

18:49
Bees, Buddhism, Japan, Nature

Buddha, Bees and the Giant Hornet Queen ( BBC Natural World) There's no fiercer looking or more dangerous insect than the giant Japanese...

Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism

Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism

13:03
Buddhism, Death, Ebook, Japan, PDF

Death and the Afterlife in Japanese Buddhism For more than a thousand years, Buddhism has dominated Japanese death rituals and concepts of t...

Sacred Koyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kobo Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha

Sacred Koyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kobo Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha

13:15
Buddhism, Ebook, Japan, Kōyasan, PDF

Sacred Koyasan: A Pilgrimage to the Mountain Temple of Saint Kobo Daishi and the Great Sun Buddha For more than one thousand years, the vast...

The Long Search: The Land of the Disappearing Buddha-Japan

The Long Search: The Land of the Disappearing Buddha-Japan

12:22
Buddhism, Documentary, Japan, Zen

The Long Search Ronald Eyre takes the viewer on a pilgrimage beginning in London and spanning 150,000 miles including India, Japan, Israel, ...

Sankyoku - Ensemble Yonin no Kaï

Sankyoku - Ensemble Yonin no Kaï

12:32
Japan, Music, Shakuhachi

Sankyoku - Ensemble Yonin no Kaï This ensemble of four musicians playing traditional music was created in 1957, when each of its four member...

Fanshî dansu (1989)

Fanshî dansu (1989)

02:28
Buddhism, Japan, Movie

Fanshî dansu (1989) Yohei, a punk rocker, has to become a Buddhist monk in order to inherit a mountain temple. Yohei though initially rebell...

Zen Koto - Michael Vetter

Zen Koto - Michael Vetter

21:47
Japan, Michael Vetter, Music

Zen Koto - Michael Vetter Michael Vetter was born in 1943 in Oberstdorf Allgäu. He studied theology and between 1970 and 1982 spent most of ...

Master of Shakuhachi - Tajima Tadashi

Master of Shakuhachi - Tajima Tadashi

13:24
Japan, Music, Shakuhachi

Master of Shakuhachi - Tajima Tadashi The shakuhachi has been much abused in the later half of the 20th century, by non-Japanese artists see...

Meditation[Zen] - F.A.B.

Meditation[Zen] - F.A.B.

13:18
Japan, Music

Meditation[Zen] - F.A.B. It is said that the chanting of the Buddhist sutras can open the chakras (energy centers) of the human body. Contin...

Okuribito (2008)

Okuribito (2008)

23:13
Death, Japan, Life, Movie

Okuribito (2008) Daigo Kobayashi (Masahiro Motoki) is a devoted cellist in an orchestra that has just been dissolved and now finds himself w...

Higashi kara (From the East) - Reiko Kimura

Higashi kara (From the East) - Reiko Kimura

11:59
Japan, Koto, Music, Reiko Kimura, Shakuhachi

Higashi kara (From the East) - Reiko Kimura This exquisite recording presents five pieces from the repertoire of koto performers in the fie...

Mourning the Unborn Dead A Buddhist Ritual Comes to America - Jeff Wilson

Mourning the Unborn Dead A Buddhist Ritual Comes to America - Jeff Wilson

15:26
Buddhism, Ebook, Japan, Jeff Wilson, PDF

Mourning the Unborn Dead A Buddhist Ritual Comes to America - Jeff Wilson Many Western visitors to Japan have been struck by the numerous ce...

Living Buddhist Statues in Early Medieval and Modern Japan - Sarah J. Horton

Living Buddhist Statues in Early Medieval and Modern Japan - Sarah J. Horton

12:27
Buddhism, Japan, Sarah J. Horton

Living Buddhist Statues in Early Medieval and Modern Japan - Sarah J. Horton Large numbers of Buddhist believers regarded Buddhist statues ...

Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation - Stephen G. Covell

Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation - Stephen G. Covell

23:17
Buddhism, Ebook, Japan, PDF, Stephen G. Covell

Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of Renunciation - Stephen G. Covell There have been many studies that focus on aspects o...

The Mystery Of The Tibetan Mummy - The History Channel

The Mystery Of The Tibetan Mummy - The History Channel

17:16
Documentary, India, Japan, Meditation, Victor Mair, Video

The Mystery Of The Tibetan Mummy - The History Channel High in the Himalayan Mountains a mysterious part of Tibet’s lost history is about to...

Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China - Christine Mollier

Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China - Christine Mollier

21:38
Buddhism, China, Christine Mollier, Ebook, Japan, PDF, Taoism

Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China - Christine Mollier Christine Mollier reve...

Zen Garden - Kokin Gumi

Zen Garden - Kokin Gumi

19:12
Japan, Kokin Gumi, Music, Shakuhachi, Zen

Zen Garden - Kokin Gumi "Tucked into the sheltered of a quiet courtyard lies a small rectangular plot of carefully raked white gravel....

Japanese Religion:The Ebook - Robert Ellwood

Japanese Religion:The Ebook - Robert Ellwood

20:22
Ebook, Japan, PDF, Zen

Japanese Religion: The Ebook - Robert Ellwood This volume is intended to present both information about the religion traditions of Japan an...

Enlightenment Guaranteed (1999)

Enlightenment Guaranteed (1999)

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Japan, Movie, Zen

Enlightenment Guaranteed (1999) Noted German filmmaker Doris Dorrie directs this understated comedy about two middle-aged brothers who go to...