Thich Nhat Hanh, I believe, was the one who first came up with the term, “engaged Buddhism.”  It means that as Buddhists, we should also be “engaged” in the problems of society and the world and do our part to ease the suffering of others.   Buddhist history shows us a wide range of that involvement. At one extreme, during the Vietnam War, there were Buddhist monks who set themselves on fire to bring attention to the conflict and who sought to stop the war. That is an extreme example of...

Editor’s note: This article is based on the speech that Bishop Rev. Marvin Harada gave at the BCA’s Southern District Jr. Young Buddhist...

I am very fond of the poems by the Myokonin Saichi Asahara. Myokonin are Shin Buddhist devotees who exemplify a deep understanding of the...