The International Study Camp 2009 in Osaka is held at Momoyama Gakuin University from 13th to 25th September 2009. This is the official blog for the program.
FIELD TRIP: Koya-san (Mt. Koya)
- Saw GARAN and other buildings led by two young foreign researchers.
- Went to the REIHOUKAN museam.
- Lecture on Kukai and his thoughts on nature by Prof. Chisho Namai of Koyasan University.
For me, today was really great. I was really interested about buddhist culture. In my country also has a lot of temples, and I like to visit temple. And today I heard about the Yoga. Yoga is good for our health.(especially to mentally) but actually in my country, many people do the Yoga because of beauty(just good looking), not mentally. I was really disappointed about it.
Anyway.. in the future, I will visit Dai Garan again! really!!
Today we went Koya-san. There was a lot of beautiful places and also existed traditional buildings. Although we learned about Shingon-syu from teacher, almost of them were I did not know. Take an example a structure which I saw at first means earth,water,fire,wind and space. All of them are conected with our body. That is,our body and the earth are united.
We spent 9 days already and we started to make the statement each group.Making our statement and report is not so easy, but I think we could make a nice one.
the lecture was difficult for me to understand all of them. So, I need to rethink and realize something from it. The nature was very beautiful, I want to go there again.
Before, we locate ourselves OUTSIDE the nature. we think of nature as a commodity that is needed to be exploited. Now, we are suffering from the consequences. Let's put ourselves WITHIN the nature. In that way we will appreciate our nature's importance.
It was fun to hear the history of buddhism in Japan. I was so intrigue because Japan and Chinese buddhism are somewhat the same, but have their own differences. All the temple we visited, were so beautiful and the museum. Just like Ram, i like to visit temples too. Being inside a temple brings me back to my heritage.
At first i did not get the point, of visiting a buddhist temple for the environment, but after, i realized that the teachings of buddhism,makes one care for the environment, makes one attached to the environment. For me it is ok to be attached, but not too attached.
Nature is beautiful, quiet, and serene, nature is the forest, with its many shades of green. Nature is the birds, welcoming in the dawn, nature is a calf, struggling to its feet as soon as it is born. Nature is a salmon, swimming against the stream, nature is a volcanic geyser, venting off steam.
Nature is a beast, kicking up a storm, nature is the trees, all bent, and broken, looking so forlorn. Nature is lightning striking the ground, nature is a forest fire, consuming all around. Nature is a tornado, with its screaming roar, nature is a tidal wave, washing every thing ashore. Nature can be a beauty, and nature can be a beast.
For me, the second visit to Koyasan make me more curious about the changes and evolution through time to time of Koyasan as a sacret religious place of Buddhism. It is great to know the history from a Phd student of that subject studing in Koyasan University who is from Croatia. later the presentaion of the president of that eminent University about the Buddhist Ideas and how it is connected to nature which make me start to think about this matter and how can we relate those in todays world... New ideas in different way.....Friends we can think about that...what do u think???
For me, today was really great. I was really interested about buddhist culture. In my country also has a lot of temples, and I like to visit temple.
ReplyDeleteAnd today I heard about the Yoga. Yoga is good for our health.(especially to mentally)
but actually in my country, many people do the Yoga because of beauty(just good looking), not mentally. I was really disappointed about it.
Anyway.. in the future, I will visit Dai Garan again! really!!
Today we went Koya-san.
ReplyDeleteThere was a lot of beautiful places and also existed traditional buildings.
Although we learned about Shingon-syu from teacher, almost of them were I did not know.
Take an example a structure which I saw at first means earth,water,fire,wind and space.
All of them are conected with our body.
That is,our body and the earth are united.
We spent 9 days already and we started to make the statement each group.Making our statement and report is not so easy, but I think we could make a nice one.
the lecture was difficult for me to understand all of them. So, I need to rethink and realize something from it.
ReplyDeleteThe nature was very beautiful, I want to go there again.
Before, we locate ourselves OUTSIDE the nature. we think of nature as a commodity that is needed to be exploited. Now, we are suffering from the consequences. Let's put ourselves WITHIN the nature. In that way we will appreciate our nature's importance.
ReplyDeleteIt was fun to hear the history of buddhism in Japan. I was so intrigue because Japan and Chinese buddhism are somewhat the same, but have their own differences. All the temple we visited, were so beautiful and the museum. Just like Ram, i like to visit temples too. Being inside a temple brings me back to my heritage.
ReplyDeleteAt first i did not get the point, of visiting a buddhist temple for the environment, but after, i realized that the teachings of buddhism,makes one care for the environment, makes one attached to the environment. For me it is ok to be attached, but not too attached.
Beauty and the Beast
ReplyDeleteNature is beautiful, quiet, and serene,
nature is the forest, with its many shades of green.
Nature is the birds, welcoming in the dawn,
nature is a calf, struggling to its feet as soon as it is born.
Nature is a salmon, swimming against the stream,
nature is a volcanic geyser, venting off steam.
Nature is a beast, kicking up a storm,
nature is the trees, all bent, and broken, looking so forlorn.
Nature is lightning striking the ground,
nature is a forest fire, consuming all around.
Nature is a tornado, with its screaming roar,
nature is a tidal wave, washing every thing ashore.
Nature can be a beauty, and nature can be a beast.
~ Tango ~
For me, the second visit to Koyasan make me more curious about the changes and evolution through time to time of Koyasan as a sacret religious place of Buddhism. It is great to know the history from a Phd student of that subject studing in Koyasan University who is from Croatia.
ReplyDeletelater the presentaion of the president of that eminent University about the Buddhist Ideas and how it is connected to nature which make me start to think about this matter and how can we relate those in todays world...
New ideas in different way.....Friends we can think about that...what do u think???