The Way of Jodo Shinshu

Some key web sites

(arranged in alphabetical order).

Amida Net
This website is maintained by Hisao Inagaki, Professor Emeritus of Ryukoku University. It is a vast resource of classical Shin Buddhist texts and images.

Centering on Fushidansekkyo
This website is maintained by Hitomi Dever. It is a vast resource about 'Preaching with Pathos' (fushidansekkyo), and an appeal for the preservation of emotion, feeling and love to religious sensibility and teaching.

The Collected Works of Shinran
contains all of the expository writings of Shinran Shonin, upon whose teachings this web site is based.

Eiken Kobai Sensei's Shin Buddhism Study Center
Eiken Kobai is Professor of Shinshu Studies at Soai University in the city of Osaka. His web site contains excellent and lucid introductions to the teaching of Shinran Shonin and Rennyo Shonin.

Professor Kobai has recently published an important paper on the essential need for actual experience of the Primal Vow of Amida Buddha as the basis for study and teaching. [Professor Kobai's home page]

Shin Dharma Net
This is Alfred Bloom's web-site. The purpose and mission of this website is to share information concerning Shin Buddhist tradition and Pure Land Buddhism as it is presently practiced and interpreted by Shin communities in the West and Japan. The site includes an introductory course on Shin Buddhism.

Myogo, the nembutsu, namo-amida-butsu.

This is the calligraphy of the twentieth-century Jodo Shinshu teacher Zuiken Inagaki (1885-1981).