SHIN BUDDHIST

--Magazine of Shin Buddhists --

No. 6


December 2003


CONTENTS

>1< Editorial
>5< Frontispiece (a wasan)
>7< A Reflection on the Wasan (by T. Teramoto)


I. The Eleventh European Shin Buddhist Conference
-- at the Ekô-Haus, Düsseldorf, Germany, Augusut 22-24, 2001::

3 < Pictures of the Conference >
5 Report of the Conference (by George Gatenby)
11 Address to the Conference
Joryu CHIBA, Chairperson, IABC (Read by E. Sasaki)
14 Presentations at the Conference:
14 Shin Buddhism: the Easiest Way and the Most Difficult Way
Ilona EVERS
25 Shin Buddhism and Agriculture
Walter URSCHÜTZ
31 Shin Buddhism and Ecology
Susanne STEFAN
39 A Brief Presentation of the White Lotus Center for Shin Buddhism
Bruno VAN PARIJS
45 News on the "Harry Pieper Jodo-Shin Buddhist Cultural Center"
Gaston BEZENÇON
57 Pure Land and Nembutsu in My Poety: A talk at the European Shin Buddhist Conference
Marcus CUMBERLEGE
71 Reflection on the European Shin Conference: The Greater Sangha
Diane JOHNSON-VAN PARIJS


II. The Twentieth Anniversary of the Internationl Association of Buddhist Culture:
73 <Pctures of the Anniversary>
75 Report on the Anniversary & the Twenty Year History of the IABC
IABC Office
80 Messages from Overseas at the Occasion of the 20th Anniversay of the IABC


III. Essays and Poems:
97 An lmpression of TOKUDO
Thomas MOSER: Shaku Jôtoku
105 Bombu as the Basisf for Shin Buddhist Counselling
Jeanette SHIN
117 Poems: To Amida l am Unforgettable (2)
Steve LANE
125 Poems and Other Writings (2)
Jerry BOLICK

131 List of IABC Publications & Announcement on the 13th ESC

PUBLISHED BY
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF BUDDHIST CULTURE
&
NAGATABUNSHODO
600-8342 Kyoto Japan


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