Buddhism, Belief and Interpretation

Jumping off from our conversation about utopia and Star Trek from our last episode, this time around we’re diving deep into questions of belief and interpretation and how to approach the mythological aspects of Shin Buddhism. What do we do with this tradition whose cosmology appears, at face value, to be so far removed from what we take for granted in a scientific/secular/modern world? Should believe all this Pure Land stuff literally or is all metaphorical? Somehow we manage to get through fundamentalism, Star Wars, the Grateful Dead, and the Big Lebowski in all of this. Enjoy! Image Credit: Offerings, Great Buddha of Kamakura, Kotokuin Temple, Kamakura, Japan, 1980 (c) 2013 Terry Feuerborn

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Buddhism, Belief and Interpretation is an episode from the DharmaRealm by Harry Bridge and Scott Mitchell.

This episode is 26:52 long.

This episode was published on Apr 1, 2016.

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