This year is the seventh year since I became the abbot of Antaiji. I have spent an equal amount of time here as an unsui and as an abbot, although the time as an abbot seems to be much shorter. When I became the abbot, at first I thought "…

I am writing about the decline of Japanese Buddhism. For the past year, I was concentrating on the fact that Japanese monks marry as one reason for this decline. Because monks are married,- most teachers have no desciples except for their …

Back to the topic: Why is it a problem that Buddhist priests are married, and what does it have to do with the decline of Japanese Buddhism? I would like to concentrate on my own case. First, I think we should make clear that it means a vi…

It has been almost three years since I started writing this series of articles called "Ten years since the Aum sarin attack". I began with the question "What has Japanese Zen done in the mean time?", asking for the reason why young Japanes…