Buddhist Chaplaincy
Buddhist Chaplaincy Training
Developing training programs in Buddhist chaplaincy, in which Buddhist monastics and lay persons learn communication and therapeutic skills to support those experiencing psychological trauma and suffering, is one way to expand the socially engaged Buddhist movement. This also provides an interface between Buddhist psychology and practice with today’s fields of science, especially psychotherapy.
While models of chaplaincy have emerged in the West, Asia is also beginning to see the emergence of organic movements of psycho-spiritual care, particularly in Taiwan and Japan. These emerging models are stimulating interest, interaction, and the desire for mutual learning throughout the Asia region. Buddhist chaplains can provide an important social resource to populations struggling with the advances of corporate capitalism such as psychological alienation and illness from community collapse, and advanced forms of trauma from armed conflict and natural disasters. INEB is in the position to host and facilitate short term training courses and promote exchange visits by persons from various countries to visit established programs in Taiwan, Japan, and the West.
The Development of Buddhist Chaplaincy in the United States & its Meaning for Japan
A presentation of research carried out by the Tokyo based Rinbutsuken Institute of Engaged Buddhists into how Buddhists in the United States have developed their own particular approaches to both serving others in need and self-development within the context of American Clinical Pastoral Training (CPE).
Standing at the Edge: Creating Balance and Resiliency in Psycho-Spiritual Care. Special Seminar #2 with Rev. Joan Halifax
A summary of Rev. Halifax’s second visit to the International Buddhist Exchange Center of the Kodo Kyodan Buddhist Fellowship in Yokohama, Japan, 2019. Rev. Halifax offered teachings drawn from her newest book ‘Standing at the Edge’ exploring how ‘edge states’ such as altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, engagement and compassion are essential emotional qualities for religious caregivers to develop in order to meet persistent suffering with transformative resilience.
Reawakening to our Interconnected World: 1st International Conference on Buddhism, Suicide Prevention, and Psycho-Spiritual Counselling
A detailed overview of the 1st International Conference on Buddhism, Suicide Prevention an Psycho-Spiritual Care hosted in Yokohama and Kyoto, Japan, 2017.
Walking the Path Together: International Roundtable on Buddhist Psychology, Psycho-Spiritual Counseling, and Chaplaincy Training
The era of modern, industrial capitalism & communism based in the dualism of mind and body has increased our fundamental human anxiety to new levels. This latest post-industrial era of mass media is intensifying this condition and reaching a tipping point in the...
Suicide now leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in Japan
Suicide has become the leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in Japan for the first time in the postwar period, an analysis of government demographic data has shown. While the total number of people across the country who kill themselves has declined...