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GROWING FOCUS ON ARTS
Interest in creativity has become an increasingly prominent part of Amida-shu life. The development of the Maitri Project as an engaged chaplaincy in Leicester, has spawned a series of day workshops and other initiatives on arts and spirituality. Amida Trust participates in the Cultural Exchanges Week at De Montfort University. Every Tuesday evening at The Buddhist House we have a session of Pandramatics.
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NEW PATRON
KENNETH TANAKA
President of the International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies
“ I welcome being included in the growing family of Amida Trust, which, in my view, has successfuly begun to share the message of Pure Land Buddhism in a context not encumbered by traditional institutions, while not rejecting or criticizing them. I appreciate its openness to push the boundaries to ally with like-minded groups and to articulate the teachings in a more accessible manner for us ordinary beings of the 21st century.”
Kenneth Tanaka is President of IASBS, the leading academic association for Pureland Buddhism, author of the book Ocean, and a good friend of Dharmavidya and also of Professor Bloom who is another much valued patron, supporter of Amida Trust, and mentor to Dharmavidya. We are delighted to have these leading authorities from Japan and the West on the Amida team.
the Amida Association, an association for spirituality and its application. Amida-kai is the association for everybody interested in the Trust's work, for the application of spiritual principles to empirical world problems, and to the exploration of the meaning of spirituality irrespective of faith alignment.
the Amida Pureland Buddhist religious society centred upon the Amida Order. Amida-shu is the religious community within Amida Trust, practising Pureland Buddhism, following in a tradition of nembutsu practice developed in Japan over the past 800 years and before that from China and India.
