Disaster Relief, Grief Care, and Buddhist Chaplaincy

Reading List Entry
The Rinsho Buddhism Chaplaincy Training Program  (2013->)
The Potential of Rinsho Buddhism and Developing Buddhist Chaplaincy in Post 3/11 Japan by Rev. Hitoshi Jin (November 28, 2012)
Psycho-Spiritual Relief Work in the Tsunami Areas: An Interview with Rev. Jin Hitoshi by Jonathan Watts (November, 2011)
Video Lecture: Rinsho (clinical) Buddhism & Issues in Developing Human Resources by Rev. Yozo Taniyama (Jodo Shin Pure Land Otani priest; professor at Tohoku University Department of Applied Religious Studies) December 17, 2020
Standing at the Edge – Creating Balance and Resiliency in Psycho-Spiritual Care: Special Seminar #2 with Rev. Joan Halifax (April 22, 2019)
Understanding the Interconnectedness of Personal and Social Suffering through Engaged Buddhism: Special Seminar with Rev. Joan Halifax (December 17, 2018)
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)
Considering Life (Inochi) Care: What Sort of Spiritual Care can be Adapted to Japanese Spirituality? Public Symposium sponsored by the Rinbutsuken Institute for Engaged Buddhism and the Kyoto University Kokoro (Heart-Mind) Center Kyoto (September 15, 2016)
Contemplative Engagement: The Development of Buddhist Chaplaincy in the United States & Its Meaning for Japan by Jonathan S. Watts and Rev. Jin Hitoshi (November 2015)
Ghosts of the Tsunami (a profile of the work of Rev. Taio Kaneda, abbot of Tsudai-ji, a Soto Zen temple in Kurihara City, Miyagi & supervisor of Cafe de Monk, which provides counseling in disaster stricken areas) by Richard Lloyd Parry (London Review of Books, Vol. 36 No. 3, February 6, 2014)
The Deep Listening Gyocha Volunteer Activities of  the Soto Zen Youth Association by Rev. Taiko Kyuma (January, 2012)
The Power of Prayer in Reviving Localities in Japan by Kyoko Isa (Asahi Shimbun November 20, 2012)
My Struggle to Revive the Cultural and Natural Heritage of Soma in Fukushima (Rev. Toku-un Tanaka)
Diary of a Buddhist Based NGO’s Aid Work: The Shanti Volunteer Association (SVA)
Smiles on the Faces of the Children of Fukushima (Rev. Eka Shimada)
What Temples Can Do as Evacuation Shelters During a Disaster (Shinobu Izawa-Jimonkoryu)
The Inter-relation between Restoration and Co-existence (Rev. Shojun Okano)
For more on the tsunami and nuclear disaster of 2011, see This Precious Life: Buddhist Tsunami Relief and Anti-Nuclear Activism in Post 3/11 Japan (March, 2012)