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“Buddhist Questions & Answers” workshop with a very special guest: Rev. Tatsuya Aoki, Bishop of the Jodo Shinshu Buddhist Temples of Canada, at the Spokane Buddhist Temple, 927 S. Perry, Spokane. Bring your questions about Buddhism, Jodo Shinshu or Middle Path Buddhism, and ask him why his favorite word is …

We can see from Buddhist scriptures that the Buddha, the Enlightened One, and his disciples lived in close harmony with the environment.

These days, there are many ways to get in touch with quality Buddhist teachings without attending a temple or Dharma center.

"Depending on how we look at Buddhism, we may describe it as a religion, a science of mind, or a philosophy. We do not need to say it is one and not the others, for Buddhism embraces aspects of all three. "

Dictionaries define recitation as the action of repeating something aloud from memory.

An easy out is to say that Buddha and his teachings were not patriarchal but Buddhist institutions were and many still are. But this is too simple.