In Cooperation with the Buddhist Study Center in Hawaii, the White Lotus Center can now offer the following titles on Shin Buddhism.  All books are available at the White Lotus Center or can be directly ordered from:

Buddhist Study Center Press
1727 Pali Highway
Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 USA
Phone: (808) 522-9210
Fax: (808) 522-9209

The Natural Way of Shin Buddhism
by Shoji Matsumoto and Ruth Tabrah

This book takes the reader on a fascinating journey into how Buddhism began in India 2500 years ago, the teaching of Amida Buddha on which Pure Land Buddhism is based, and the way in which the thirteenth century poet and teacher Shinran opened a new horizon in Mahayana Buddhism.  Both for those encountering Pure Land Buddhism for the first time, and those for whom it has been an inherited tradition, this book provides a contemporary view of Shinran's creative insights and their potential for men and women seeking a meaningful, nondiscriminating, scientifically compatible, non-theistic religious focus.  Reviewer George Gatenby says this is a "book by people who clearly live the way they describe and delight in a treasure to all who own it, a resource to return to many times."

ISBN 0-938474-14-6  176 pages $9.95

Ajatasatru: The Story of Who We Are
by Shoji Matsumoto and Ruth Tabrah

This is the first easy-to-read translation of the Nirvana sutra episode relating the ancient tragedy of a son murdering his father, and searching for a way to live with what he regrets having done.  This story is timeless, an historic incident in which modern men and women can find everything they want to know about themselves, about human nature and the compassion and wisdom of the Buddha.  A new century sutra is how the authors view this third section of Shinran's master text, Kyo-Gyo-Shin-Sho.

ISBN 0-0938474-07-3  71 pages  $8.95

Buddhist Voices from Metta

This is a collection of dharma insights by and for everyday people.  These candid, heart-touching reflections, essays, and poems are from the vast treasure house of more than twenty years of METTA, the monthly publication of Hawaii's Buddhist Study Center, a community outreach of Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii.  This is a book that readers of all ages and backgrounds, wherever they are in their own spiritual journeys, will want to read over and over again.

ISBN 0-0938474-17-0  109 pages  $5.95

Shin Sutras To Live By
Edited by Ruth Tabrah and Shoji Matsumoto

Modern English translations of the three basic sutras of Shin Buddhism: Shoshinge, Sanbutsuge and Juseige plus an explanation of the meaning and value of sutra chanting, a translation of eko, and a new century homage.  A basic English language resource of Shin Buddhist ritual.

ISBN 0-0938474-12-X  45 pages  $5.95

Memoirs of a Buddhist Woman Missionary in Hawaii
by Shigeo Kikuchi

Both for those in women's studies and for Hawaiiana buffs as well as for those curious about the role of a Buddhist missionary, these memoirs give a unique picture of rural life in early twentieth century Hawaii.  Wedding customs, the sending off to war of nisei boys in World War I, the cooperative nature of life in an early plantation community, and the fortitude of a woman missionary living on the edge of poverty, are portrayed with the author's Buddhist focus which enable her to live through the most difficult conditions with inner strength and serenity.

ISBN 0-0938474-13-8  73 pages  $8.95

Shoshinge: The Heart of Shin Buddhism
by Alfred Bloom

Alfred Bloom, one of the world's most beloved Buddhist scholars, writes in a clear, everyday style about the meaning and content of the sutra, Shoshinge, Shinran's thirteenth century poetic description of the origin, content, and joyful entrusting of what he saw as the ultimate insight of Mahayana Pure Land Buddhism.

ISBN 0-0938474-06-5  108 pages  $8.95

An Introduction to Shin Buddhism
by T. Shigaraki

A paper bound booklet that is exactly what the title implies: a brief analysis of the role of religion in modern life and the nature of Shin Buddhism as contemporary religious focus.

ISBN 0-0938474-11-1  $2.95

Buddha & Man
by Eikichi Ikeyama

This book has been skillfully translated from the original Japanese by Dr. Toshikazu Arai, an internationally oriented Buddhist writer.  Nietzsche and Goethe were profound influences on Professor Ikeyama, who spent the early years of the twentieth century studying in Europe.  His search for the meaning of Shin Buddhism in his own life was so intense that he subtitled this text, "Milestone."

ISBN 0-0938474-09-X  62 pages  $8.95

Resource for Modern Living: Tannisho
by Alfred Bloom

Professor Bloom has given us an excellent introduction to the teachings of Shinran (1173-1262) and how they can be applied to contemporary life.  This work is unique for several reasons: it is the first comprehensive English exposition on the Tannisho, a basic text of Shin Buddhism; it provides insights into all eighteen sections of the text (the usual focus is on the sayings of Shinran in the first ten sections); and it suggests social and ethical possibilities for Shinran's teaching in the west.

ISBN 0-0938474-00-6  102 pages  $8.95

The Path of Awakening
by Kosho Soga

A collection of dharma talks for everyday life, of special appeal to those in their twenties and thirties.  The author, who is in that age group himself, writes in a powerful way about the meaning of Shin Buddhism in this modern, scientific, nuclear age.  Confronted by the deaths of a young cousin and a beloved grandfather, he comes to an understanding and personal acceptance of the religious path he earlier rejected.

ISBN 0-0938474-07-3  63 pages  $8.95

The Buddhist World of Awakening
by Takamaro Shigaraki

A clear and incisive exploration of Shin Buddhism (Jodo Shinshu) that is widely used in colleges and universities offering courses in Asian studies, Buddhist studies or Comparative Religion.  The freshness of Shigaraki's approach has also drawn a large general readership.  This book has recently been translated into German and Polish.

ISBN 0-0938474-02-2  86 pages  $8.95

One Man's Journey
A Spiritual Autobiography by Kazuo Miyamoto

A rich reflection on living in the worlds of East and West by a Honolulu physician who experienced and appreciated both.  The candor and sensitivity of this Hawaii-born, mainland educated nisei, his deep Buddhist commitment and his vivid writing style appeal to readers young and old.  Now in second printing.

ISBN 0-0938474-04-9  120 pages  $8.95

Living Shin Buddhism
by Ruth Tabrah

A deeply moving account of one of the twentieth century's most profound and direct nembutsu teachers.  Rev. Masao Hanada gives the essence of Shinran's Shin Buddhist way through an account of how he himself became a truly human being.  Second printing 1994.

ISBN 0-0938474-15-4  27 pages  $2.95

Dharma Treasures
Spiritual Insights from Hawaii's Shin Buddhist Pioneers  by Tatsuo Muneto

Dharma Treasures is a storehouse of Shin Buddhist insights presented here for the first time in the sensitive English translation of Rev. Tatsuo Muneto.  The poems collected in this book directly and intuitively express the process of awakening that is at the heart of Shinran's Nembutsu teaching.  In the brief biographical sketch of each poet, Rev. Muneto gives us a feeling for the way our lives can be interconnected through the Nembutsu with each of them.  Their joy in being sustained by Amida's immeasurable wisdom and compassion is an inspiration to all readers and seekers.

ISBN 0-0938474-19-7  41 pages  $8.95

Tannisho: A Shin Buddhist Classic
Translated by Taitetsu Unno

There is completely new, exciting material in this second revised edition of Dr. Taitetsu Unno's 'Tannisho: A Shin Buddhist Classic'.  His rendering of this thirteenth century Pure Land Buddhist classic conveys the power of the original Japanese, a literary as well as religious treasure.  The short, clear sentences in his new 'Afterword' give readers the timeless essence of Shinran's teachings.

ISBN 0-0938474-18-9  80 pages  $12.95

Bodhisattvas Everywhere
by T. Sakakibara (transl. by T. Arai)

A moving account of what one perceptive Buddhist teacher sees as the reality of his life as a soldier in China, a husband left with an infant child to raise, a priest torn between tradition and his yearning to live a meaningful life.  Reflections in the setting of the 1000 year old Jojuji temple in the hills above Kyoto, cover the wide range of Sakakibara's thoughts on education, violence, genetic engineering, and how it is that he sees bodhisattvas everywhere.

ISBN 0-0938474-03-0  63 pages  $8.95