Development I: Economic Development & Community – from the 2nd to 4th Noble Truths with the Suicide Prevention Priests

Reading List Entry
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

Development II: The Homeless & Workers in the Nuclear Industry

Reading List Entry
Homelessness in Japan: Unique solutions with broad benefit – NHK World Japan (Oct. 18, 2024)
Rebuilding Human Bonds amidst Japan’s Disconnected Society: A Buddhist Path through Rural Decline, Migrant Laborers, Poverty & Homelessness (October 13, 2020)
Towards Reviving a Society with Connection (yu-en): The Hitosaji Association’s Work with the Homeless and Disconnected (mu-en) (October 4, 2018)
Video Lecture: Poverty and Urban Alienation—Considering a Buddhist Approach to Aid: Rev. Gakugen Yoshimizu (Jodo Pure Land priest; co-founder of the Hitosaji Association for homeless support, Rinsho Buddhism chaplain trainer) December 17, 2020
Buddhism and Social Activism in Today’s Japan: The Activities of the Hitosaji Association by Rev. Akinori Takase
The homepage of the Hitosaji Asssociation ひとさじの会 of Buddhist priests who feed the homeless in Asakusa. And read more about their activities here in this article: 祖末に捨てられる食品を生かせるフードバンクとは？
Reflections from a Buddhist on How Poverty Affects Children (日本語と英語は一緒に）貧困が子どもたちに及ばす影響に関する仏教的見地からの所見 – by Hidehito Okochi 大河内秀人
Video Lecture: Child Poverty & the Temple Snack Club (お寺おやつクラブ otera-oyatsu kurabu) with Rev. Shinmyo Noda (Rinzai Zen Myoshin-ji denomination) May 6, 2022
A Buddhist Perspective on Homelessness
The 3 Structures of Discrimination: Rural Regions, Nuclear Contaminated Work, Children by Rev. Tetsuen Nakajima/ 警告発することも宗教活動：地方・被曝労働・子ども３つの差別構造がー中島哲演 (2011年6月2日)
The life and work of a Buddhist nun who runs a homeless shelter in Sumida-ku, Tokyo.「苦しいときこそ笑いなさい」

Development III: Clean Energy & the Eco-Temple

Reading List Entry
Shift the Power: Building a Buddhist Temple Community as a Mechanism for Environmental and Social Change (November 2, 2018)
Deconstructing the Myths of Nuclear Energy and Building a Pure Land without Nuclear or Military Presence by Rev. Hidehito Okochi. 2012.
The Eco-Temple Community Development Project
After the Paris-Agreement: Corporate Meltdown in the Nuclear Industry/パリ合意後、世界の原発はどうなっているのか原子力企業のメルトダウン by Mycle Schneider (April 14, 2016) – see also the World Nuclear Industry Status Report
Kenju-in: An Eco-Temple Protecting Forests and Building Health and Longevity through Everyone’s Energy / 見樹院の取り組み 「森を守り、健康で長寿 命の建築をみんなの力で
The homepage of Juko-in, Rev. Okochi’s green temple in Edogawa-ku (日本語だけ)
Video Lecture: Environmental Issues and Regional Development—Clean energy and a new financing mechanism using the Buddhist way of making offerings by Rev. Ryogo Takemoto (Jodo Shin Pure Land Hongan-ji priest; TERA Energy co-founder, INEB Eco-Temple Network) December 17, 2020
Tera Energy: Buddhist Priests Selling Energy to Support Communities & the Maintenance of Temples (Bukkyo Times May 16, 2019 & Mainichi Newspaper October 25, 2018)
The Greening of the Self by Joanna Macy
原子力行政を問い直す宗教者の会
宗教者が核燃料サイクル事業廃止を求める裁判
2012/04/26 地域といのちを守れ！フクシマ全国集会
原発事故から被曝労働まで 人間の絆分断に警鐘鳴らす (2012年1月17日)
For students concentrating on this issue, read: Lotus in the Nuclear Sea: Fukushima and the Promise of Buddhism in the Nuclear Age (November, 2013) This Precious Life: Buddhist Tsunami Relief and Anti-Nuclear Activism in Post 3/11 Japan (March, 2012 And for a wide range of articles on the nuclear issue and Japanese Buddhism see this site!

Development IV: Buddhist Visions of Alternative Development & Buddhist Economics

The Choice of Development Paradigms in Japan after the 3/11 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster by Jun Nishikawa

Video Lecture Depopulation and Regional Development—Reviving local communities through alternative lifestyles based in Buddhism by Rev. Chisa Yamashita (Jodo Pure Land nun; managing director of Amrita Buddhist Social Enterprise) December 17, 2020

The Religion of the Market by David R. Loy (The Journal of the American Academy of Religion 65/2)

E.F. Schumacher “Buddhist Economics” in Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, (New York: Harper and Row, 1974) – also available in Japanese (スモール・イズ・ビューティフル : 人間中心の経済学)

『環境・福祉・経済倫理と仏教 : 現代を生きるための叡智』 芹川博通著 (京都 : ミネルヴァ書房 2002.10) – 慶応図書館内

Dhammic Socialism by Buddhadasa Bhikkhu. Trans. Donald Swearer (Bangkok: Thai Inter-religious Commission for Development, 1993)

Ven. P. A. Payutto. Buddhist Economics A Middle Way for the Market Place (Bangkok: Buddhadhamma Foundation, 1995)

西川潤 「開 発(かいほつ)と仏教:タイにおける内発的発展の担い手としての仏教」from 西川潤と野田真里「仏教・開発(かいほつ)・NGO:タイ開発(かいほつ)僧に学ぶ共生の智慧」東京：新評論出版社、2001.

仏教経済で社会変革を「欲望肥大」の政策から縮小させる重要性説く