What is Jodo Shu (Pure Land Buddhism)? With Rev. Taijun Kasahara (SUB: SPA.)

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Hosted by filmmaker Yujiro Seki, Carving the Divine TV is a series of Q&A sessions with Buddhist scholars and practitioners. These Q&A sessions explore the basic concepts of Buddhism, the history of Buddhism and of course Buddhist sculptures/sculptors (bustuzo/busshi) so that when viewers finally watch the documentary Carving the Divine - Buddhist sculptors of Japan, they will get the maximum value of the documentary.

In the three years of Carving the Divine TV, we still haven’t had any practitioner episodes with Jodo Shu, one of the most important traditional Buddhist sects of Japan.  Finally we will make our dream come true today.  We have a special interview episode with Jodo Shu priest, Rev. Taijun Kasahara from Rinkaian temple. Yes, we have an English-speaking Japanese priest to share with us the important teachings of Jodo Shu!  See you in the show! 

We will ask important questions such as:

What is Jodo Shu? What is the core teaching of Jodo Shu?
What is the brief history about Jodo Shu?
Who is Rev. Honen?  Why did he leave Tendai Buddhism/Mt. Hiei? 
What is a degenerated age (Mappo)? 
What is Amida Nyroai (Amida Buddha)? 
Does Jodo Shu only venerate Amida Nyorai? 
What is Amida’s original vow? 
What is Jiriki and Tariki? Why is Tariki important? 
What is Nembutsu? What does “Namu Amida Butsu" mean? 
What exactly is the Pure Land? Where is it? 
What are some of the differences between Jodo Shu and Jodo Shin Shu? 

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Taijun Kasahara was born in Tokyo, Japan. After graduating from Keio University, he worked in the accounting department of Nippon Express (a logistics company) for eight years. Then he quit that job and became an official priest of Jodo Shu after learning and training at Bukkyo University in Kyoto.  In 2005 he opened a new temple, Rinkaian, in Tama City in Tokyo. As the chief priest of the temple, he has been serving the believers and other people in the area, and also spreading the teachings of Jodo Shu through the Internet.

Website: https://www.rinkaian.jp/e/
Twitter:   / rinkaian  
Facebook:   / rinkaian  
YouTube:    / @rinkaian_channel5610  
E-mail: [email protected]

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