Gleanings in Buddha-Fields

Recently, I learned about this proverb in Taiwanese through the RTI podcast show Tai-gi Made Easy:

有燒香有保庇。
ū sio-hiunn ū pó-pì

The meaning is:

Burn incense and say a prayer, the gods will look a...

Recently I wrote about my visit to a famous Rinzai-Zen temple named Engaku-ji. I spent half a day there including doing some sutra-copying, called shakyo (写経) there.

Many temples in Japan hold shakyo events from time to time. The idea...

The founding of the Rinzai sect of Zen in Japan is a complicated history that I posted about before, but I wanted to focus on the monk named Myoan Eisai (明菴 栄西, 1141 – 1215),1 because while Buddhist nerds like me might vaguely kn...

Hi Folks, apologies for the confusion. A kind user informed me that the survey in this post wasn’t loading (for some reason I could see it). I think this is fixed now.

If not, feel free to

I had some free time lately to finally compose a survey for this blog. Apparently, the last survey I made was in 2012 for an older iteration of this blog, so the information is a little bit outdated.

Please let me know your thoughts, so I can strive to improve the blog.