Stephen G. Covell, "The Teaching and Teachings of Temple Buddhism in Contemporary Japan" (U Hawaii Press, 2024)

How have Buddhist teachings come to be in modern and contemporary

Japan and how are they taught? This pioneering work seeks to answer

these questions by highlighting the public teachings of Temple Buddhism

institutions, in particular Temple Buddhism kindergartens and Buddhist

secondary schools and colleges. The community outreach provided by these

Buddhist facilities is far greater than any other with the possible

exception of funerals yet until now it has received little attention

from scholars of Japanese religion.

After determining what is taught in Buddhist education and how,

Stephen Covell introduces readers to a select group of monks who undergo

some of the most grueling practices in Japanese Temple Buddhism to

determine if the public-facing teachings of Buddhist education are