The 21st Annual Hawaii Association of International Buddhists (HAIB) Dinner and Meeting will be Saturday, June 7, 2014 at the Soto Mission of Hawaii (1708 Nuuanu Avenue) from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM. For more information, see our Other Events page. (This page includes events of potential interest to temple members and web visitors that […]
We have posted some photos from the recent Gotan-e services—including a rare appearance by the cedar statue of Shinran Shonin in the Social Hall! Thank you to Rev. Tomo Hojo and Ruth Tokumi for providing the photos. See the photos in the Major Services image gallery.
This year’s Summer Session will be held the evenings of Monday, July 28 through Friday, August 1 at the Buddhist Study Center in Honolulu (1436 University Ave). The speaker will be Reverend Marvin Harada, minister at Orange County Buddhist Temple. His talks will be based on a course he teaches entitled, “Resolving Life’s Problems Through […]
The Honpa Hongwanji Mission of Hawaii End of Life Committee is pleased to announce a series of small group sessions. Our theme: Living Well Till the End of Life: Have You Had the Conversation? Group conversations are an opportunity for participants (limited to 10-12 in each group) to discuss end-of-life issues, share experiences and concerns, […]
Papers from the the 2014 Numata Conference in Buddhist Studies are now available for download and recorded lectures will soon be broadcast on ‘Ōlelo Community Media. The conference, held March 20-21 at the East-West Center, focused on the theme “Violence, Nonviolence, and Japanese Religions: Past, Present, and Future.” For two days, twenty-one presenters engaged the local and […]
You can now access online versions of the May 2014 English and Japanese language editions of our monthly Goji newsletter online. See the links under the cover image.