Episodes
Back in Episode 056 we visited the Nanhai Guanyin area of Putuoshan in Zhejiang Province. Let's continue that day's touring and drop in on Huiji Temple, the third of the 142 key temples I visited in China, in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 07/28/20
Come along as I visit this intimate temple (between visiting two of Japan's largest holy sites) in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 07/24/20
Let's continue reliving my day trip to Hangzhou and visit Jingci Temple, last home of a crazy monk named Ji Gong, in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 07/21/20
Let's visit Seiganto-ji, the first numbered temple of the 33 dedicated to Kannon (Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Compassion) in the Kansai area of Japan, in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 07/17/20
I had been on many a pilgrimage in Japan, but I had to endure for five years before I discovered a way to tread the pilgrim's path in China. Come along on my first "official" Chinese temple outing in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 07/13/20
It's Photo Essay Friday again! We'll take a look at some of the temples I visited in Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefectures on my Aki Meguri or "Autumn Journey" down the Old Tokaido Highway in the fall of 2001 in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 07/10/20
Aside from the "Four Great Buddhist Mountains of China," there may be hundreds of smaller peaks covered in temples, and we'll visit one of them, Tianma Shan or "Heaven Horse Mountain," in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 07/09/20
Let's revisit some of the reflective journal entries I wrote on my 2001 Aki Meguri walk through Japan in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 07/06/20
Photo Essay Friday again? Already? Let's whiz around to a number of temples in China to take a look at some of the denizens of various 500 Arhat Halls in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 07/03/20
Let's visit tiny Asukadera, one of the earliest temples in Japan, and its homely Buddha statue, said to be the country's oldest, in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 07/01/20
Not far from the buried churches of Bacolor which we visited in Episode 031 is the lovely Betis Church of Saint James the Apostle, called "the Sistine Chapel of the Philippines." Come with me in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/29/20
It's Photo Essay Friday, and this will be a good one: a visit to not just one, but TWO sets of grottoes near Dazu in Chongqing in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/26/20
Let's wander a bit in Tokyo, exploring a few of the short pilgrimages I undertook there in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/24/20
I had to teach my spell-checker that "Buddha" can be plural. Come join me for a survey of the range of BuddhaS available in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/22/20
Let's take a look at a handful of small but fascinating temples across Mirs Bay from Hong Kong in an outlying district of the modern metropolis of Shenzhen, in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/19/20
Back to Japan for a visit to my "home temple," Tokyo's Senso-ji in Asakusa, and a crazy little heron dance at a festival, in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/17/20
Let's pay a visit to the ruins of the Sinagua people of northern Arizona, builders of what may be the northernmost Mesoamerican-style ball court yet discovered, in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/15/20
In high summer in 2001, as Tokyo suffered through yet another heatwave, I escaped to the mountains of Saitama Prefecture to soothe both body and spirit while hiking an ancient 60-mile pilgrimage path. Trudge along with me in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/12/20
Last time we learned the background of those wacky characters known as the 18 Arhats, and met the first eight of them. We'll meet the remaining ten in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/10/20
As we enter a temple's main hall, we may see on either side of us 18 odd-looking characters, nine to a side. Let's learn who they are, and start meeting them one by one, in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/08/20
Let's visit the stunning South Sea Guanyin (the Bodhisattva of Compassion) and environs on the Chinese island paradise of Putuo Shan, in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/05/20
When we visited the pagoda of Linji (called in Japanese Rinzai), I mentioned Rinzai and Soto and another sect of Buddhism in Japan: Obaku. Let's visit its mother temple in China, Huangbo Shan Wanfu Temple, and explore a "Tale of Two Temples" in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/03/20
From time to time I'll be sharing well-known stories from Japanese and Chinese culture. We'll examine two stories displaying mono no aware, the "transience of things," from the Japanese Tale of the Heike in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 06/01/20
On a sweltering late-summer day in 2011, my pilgrimage took me to the memorial pagoda of one of Zen's greatest Masters: Linji (called "Rinzai" in Japan). But nearby were three more pagodas to see--which I did, and you will too, in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 05/29/20
Come with me as I visit Shisen-do, the retreat built by a retired samurai-turned-poet in Kyoto's northeast foothills--and now a Buddhist temple, in this episode of-- TEMPLE TALES! FULL Show Notes at Substack Click for audio and podcast links »
Published 05/27/20
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