Human Relationships I: Dying and Grieving in an Aging Society & the Potential of Buddhist Chaplaincy

Reading List Entry
Video Lecture: A Society of Extreme Elderly & End-of-Life Care by Rev. Daihaku Okochi (Jodo Pure Land priest; Rinsho Buddhist chaplain trainer; Gansei-ji temple’s Satto-san Home-Visit Nursing Station) December 17, 2020
Challenges of Caring for the Aging and Dying: Lessons from Japan by Carl B. Becker
Tear Down the Wall: Bridging the Pre-Mortem and Post-Mortem Worlds in Japanese Medical and Spiritual Care – Rev. Yoshiharu Tomatsu
Café for Carer’s Peace of Mind (June 2019)
医師の「役割」を考える：僧侶が医学部で異色の授業（戸松義晴）
“True View”: Shifting to the Patient’s Standpoint of Suffering in a Buddhist Hospital – Dr. Hayashi Moichiro
「緩和ケアビハーラ病棟の五年間」林茂一郎
The Vihara Movement: Buddhist Chaplaincy and Social Welfare in Japan – Rev. Yozo Taniyama
One Dies as One Lives: The Importance of Developing Pastoral Care Services and Religious Education – Rev. Mari Sengoku
Video Lecture: End-of-Life Care & Buddhist Naikan Therapy with Rev. Mari Sengoku 千石真理 (Jodo Shin Pure Land Hongan-ji denomination 浄土真宗本願寺派) April 15, 2022
Amans: A Buddhist Nun’s Efforts to Unite the Medical and Religious Worlds in Death – Rev. Keido Iijima
アマンズ のダイアローグ：「遺族外来」のある病院 – 飯島惠道
The Saimyo-ji Temple-Hospital Care Facility: Continuing the Ancient Tradition of Holistic Care from Buddhist Temples by Rev./Dr. Masahiro Tanaka and Dr. Teiga Tanaka
An Introduction to Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved in the Modern World – Jonathan Watts
医療・ 仏教・死の現場～海外の事例が日本に示唆するもの– ジョナサン・ワッツ
The Potential of Rinsho Buddhism and Developing Buddhist Chaplaincy in Post 3/11 Japan by Rev. Hitoshi Jin
Contemplative Care & Spirituality: Going Beyond Mindfulness Practice for Being with Suffering & Grief Public Symposium presented by the Rinbutsuken Institute for Engaged Buddhism, the Sophia University Institute of Grief Care, and the Tokyo Jikei Medical University Palliative Care Center (November 4, 2017)
Buddhist Priests Who Are Present at the Time of Death by Kyoko Isa Asahi Shimbun January 28, 2013 (evening edition)

Human Relationships II: The 1st Noble Truth of the Suicide Prevention Priests

Reading List Entry
Journey Through Dukkha: The Suicide Prevention Priests of Japan Enter into Structural Violence and Connect to Social Change
LAST CALL: A Buddhist monk confronts Japan’s suicide culture (Profile of Rev. Jotetsu Nemoto in The New Yorker Magazine June 24, 2013)
「自殺したら成仏できないのか」という重い問い：自死に向き合う僧侶
Video Lecture: What kind of death should we consider suicide as? How Buddhists deal with preventing suicide by Rev. Sei Noro (Jodo Shin Pure Land Hongan-ji priest; professor at the Ryukoku University Department of Buddhist Studies) December 17, 2020
Video Lecture: Suicide Prevention with Rev. Soin Fujio (Rinzai Zen Kencho-ji denomination) May 27, 2022
The Warmth of Connection: A Buddhist Path to the Realization of Healing (International Roundtable on Buddhist Psychology, Psycho-Spiritual Counseling, and Chaplaincy Training, March 12-15, 2019)
Re-Awakening to Our Inter-connected World: Report on 1st International Conference on Buddhism, Suicide Prevention, and Psycho-Spiritual Counseling (November 6-10, 2017)
Reconstructing Priestly Identity and Roles in Contemporary Japan and the Development of Socially Engaged Buddhism (last 2/3s)
Can Religions Devise Policies for Coping with Suicide? by Rev. Masazumi Shojun Okano/ 日本語：「宗教教団が取り組む自殺対 策の可 能性を探る」岡野正純
Too Lonely to Die Alone: Internet Suicide Pacts and Existential Suffering in Japan by Chikako Ozawa-de Silva. Cult Med Psychiatry (2008) 32:516–551.
From a Disconnected Society to an Interconnected One: Depopulation, Suicide, and Isolated Death by Rev. Shunei Hakamata
袴田俊英（秋田県の曹洞宗僧侶）： 「無縁社会」から「有縁社会」へ：過疎化、自死、孤立死
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Part I: In a society where there are about 90 suicides per day what can a priest do? / 一日約９０人も自殺する世に僧は何ができるか日 本語pdf
Part II: What an Abbot can do for a follower who complains of “wanting to die” / 『死にたい』と訴える檀家に住職ができること日本語pdf
「自殺したら成仏できないのか」という重い問い：自死に向き合う僧侶
年二百万人の心が自殺で傷ついている今をどうするべきか
官庁の自殺対策は寺も係われる有効なものか
自殺実態白書 (自殺対策支援セ ンター　ライフリンク）