Giving Tuesday – It’s Important – Please Donate

Tomorrow is Giving Tuesday.  I wrote a few days ago a post encouraging you to think about making a donation to a temple on this day.  It came to my mind that perhaps you may not know which are NONA temples and sanghas and how you can donate to them.  Here is a listing and links I have received so far.  Missing links will be updated as I receive them. Here is a list: Nichiren…

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Daily Lotus Book Trivia

Hopefully by this time you have at least seen a photo of the cover of the Daily Lotus, a collection of Lotus Sutra quotations.  Depicted on the front cover is a Dharma Wheel.  Over the years I have collected photos of utility hole covers, man-hole covers if you will, that are decorated with the Dharma Wheel, the universal symbol of Buddhism.  I’ve found it curious that such an image would be used and have often…

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Giving Tuesday – Support Local Temples

Tuesday next week, 28 November 2017, is National Giving Tuesday.  I am guessing by now you have received various solicitations from many groups.  Perhaps you have decided to skip them all, or you may have a favorite group you are certain to donate to. As you consider your donation I hope you will take a moment and think about supporting your local Nichiren Shu temple.  If you don’t have a local temple then consider supporting…

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Daily Lotus – A Book of Daily Quotations from Lotus Sutra

Now Available on Amazon I enjoy daily quotation or phrase a day books, and they are widely available for various topics one might be interested in.  I’ve missed having one devoted solely to the Lotus Sutra.  It became a desire of mine to have such a book several years ago in fact.  I began working on this project in 2014, can you believe that?   First my chaplain work and training got in the way of…

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