Comments on: The One-Sheet Document http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/23/the-one-sheet-document/ My life as a father, Buddhist, Japanophile and Koreaphile. Tue, 29 May 2012 07:24:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Doug 陀愚 http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/23/the-one-sheet-document/#comment-6929 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:18:14 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2662#comment-6929 Hello Fons and welcome to the JLR,

I didn’t quite understand your request. Are you asking if you can use the materials here for training? If so, yes, please feel free to use anything here. Please note that I have also posted a “Field Manual” for Buddhists in general:

http://japanlifeandreligion.com/the-buddhists-field-manual/

This is intended various topics, and also has links to various sutras and text (including this page :) ). The purpose of this manual is to provide resources for Buddhists in general, so please feel free to use this “manual” as much as you like. If you have suggestions or requests, please let me know.

Thanks again,
Doug

]]> By: Fons Martens http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/23/the-one-sheet-document/#comment-6928 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:24:43 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2662#comment-6928 Thank you so much, Doug, for publishing the One Sheet Document from Honen Shonin, in English translation from jodo.org. During the weekly services and dharma talks in our temple, jikōji in Antwerp (Belgium), we try to use the original text (Japanese and romaji versions – if possible), with the English and Dutch translation – side by side. So, whenever we chant a hymn or discuss a subject, we can refer to the mother tongue of our members (Dutch), while we still have the other language versions available for non-Dutch speakers.

Now, in Belgium, Buddhism is in the process of being officially recognized as a religion. Within a couple of years we will be able to give courses of Buddhism in the regular school classes. Next to the many Tibetan and Zen Buddhist groups in Belgium, we are the only Pure Land group (in fact not Jodo-Shu but Jodo-Shinshu, belonging to Nishi Hongwanji – so we are visiting the 750 years Shinran Shonin celebrations in September 2011! We hope to be able to visit the Konkai Komyo-ji, Kyoto also).

Therefore, it’s really nice to have found your blog… Indeed, we are intended to use the Ichimai-kishōmon as basic text for training the future teachers of Buddhist courses in Spring 2012 [for the French speaking future teachers] and later on [for the Dutch speaking future teachers].

Please, Doug, can we get your permission to use your blog entrance for our internal activities and for the training sessions in 2012? Thank you so much for all your work.

Keep on spreading the Buddha Dharma

In gassho
Fons Martens

]]> By: Stephen http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/23/the-one-sheet-document/#comment-1486 Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:59:08 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2662#comment-1486 Yes, 2011 is the 800th memorial for Honen Shonin. Chion-in will be celebrating Gyoki from 27 March to the 25th of April. There will be numerous other events held at different times and different head Temples will be having their Gyoki at different times. So I hope you do get the time to visit Chion-in or Chion-ji or Konkai Komyoji, I might meet up with you when I go to pay my respects to Shinran.
The reason is because Japanese memorials have a special counting system. The Funeral is considered the first memorial so one year later would be the second memorial.
Stephen

]]> By: Doug http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/23/the-one-sheet-document/#comment-1485 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 14:16:02 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2662#comment-1485 Kinyobi Welcome! This particular post is more oriented toward Buddhism, particularly Japanese Buddhism, so you would find the Kanji both difficult, archaic, and not always practical, though interestingly a lot of it remains in modern Japanese, but with changed meanings or contexts.

Jishin That’s good to know. I thought they overlapped more or less. I know we’re going to see the Shinran 750th memorial, but I was hoping to see Honen’s as well.

]]> By: Jishin http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/23/the-one-sheet-document/#comment-1482 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:59:02 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2662#comment-1482 Hello All,

The 750th memorial for Shinran Shonin is a year earlier starting in May 2011 though the observances will continue until January 2012.

]]> By: kinyobi http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/23/the-one-sheet-document/#comment-1481 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:38:14 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2662#comment-1481 I linked to this site from Japanesepod101.com will read through it more, I probably won’t be able to read your Kanji letters, but you do offer the Romaji (which as I lear Hiragana is harder for me to read, oddly enough).

Nice blog…thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Doug http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/23/the-one-sheet-document/#comment-1480 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:20:08 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2662#comment-1480 Funny you should mention that. 2012 celebrates the 800th memorial of Honen, and the 750th memorial of Shinran. My wife and I have already planned on visiting Kyoto around then. :) Kyoto is pricey, so we’ll be preparing early. ;)

]]> By: Tornadoes28 http://japanlifeandreligion.com/2009/01/23/the-one-sheet-document/#comment-1477 Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:54:18 +0000 http://nihonshukyo.wordpress.com/?p=2662#comment-1477 Wow, in 3 years it will be the 800th anniversary of Honen’s passing.

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