Koken Shoja | Buddhist Texts and Dharma Resources
✦BUDDHIST TEXTS AND DHARMA RESOURCES KOKEN SHOJA
One lamp lights another, without end.
One lamp can kindle countless others without losing its light—a metaphor for the Dharma continuing through reading, understanding, and sharing.
May one light kindle a hundred thousand lamps.
弘顕精舎
MIND AND DWELLING
Dwelling and Cultivation
The Dharma is fundamental; feng shui is a supporting condition. A dwelling does not replace karma, and feng shui does not present itself as Buddhism. The former clarifies direction and ethics; the latter examines how landform, buildings, time, and daily life relate.
Mind is primary
No dwelling can replace conduct, relationships, or awareness.
Place conditions
Light, wind, sound, circulation, and form shape bodily and mental conditions.
Methods serve
Methods are used to judge, organize, and avoid harm—not to manufacture mystery.
Compassion limits
No fear, deification, or anxiety designed to force a purchase.
THE DHARMA LIBRARY
The Dharma Library
Dharma at the center, texts at the root. Each division begins with a direct answer, source, and reading guide—an entry for newcomers and a body of material that can be checked, cited, and passed on.
Beginnings
What Buddhism is, the Three Jewels, and an order of study—basic orientation for a first encounter with the Dharma.
Read (in Chinese)→ 〔Grounded in texts〕Sutras
Primary texts, edition notes, and reading guides. Every quotation names its source; summaries do not replace scripture.
Read (in Chinese)→ 〔The Infinite Lamp〕Vimala
The Vimalakirti Sutra on lay practice, nonduality, and the Infinite Lamp—the source of Koken Shoja’s founding aspiration.
Read (in Chinese)→ 〔Temple culture〕Pilgrimage
Temples and shrines, without an itinerary — read through syncretism, ritual, and origin.
Read→ 〔The library’s heart〕Mind-Ground
Indexes and guided readings of Nan Huai-chin’s lectures, returning to the text, its context, and questions of practice.
Read→NEW FROM THE LIBRARY
Recently Organized
Every resource names its title, source, and date of revision. A library is not a display case but an ongoing work of collation.
- VimalaVimalakirti division opens: overview, Expedient Means, and Nonduality (in Chinese)→
- SutrasSutra division opens: Heart, Diamond, and Eight Realizations sutras in full (in Chinese)→
- VimalaThe Infinite Lamp: how one lamp kindles a hundred thousand (in Chinese)→
- BeginningsWhat is the Buddhadharma? (in Chinese)→
- Mind-GroundIndex and citation guide to Master Nan’s lectures (in Chinese)→
- Open DataDictionary of Japanese Feng Shui—120 entries→
- SeasonsComplete database of the seventy-two microseasons→
PERSONAL CONSULTATION
Consult with Kenoushin
Kenoushin personally reviews the concrete materials behind questions of dwelling and life planning, combining traditional judgment with present conditions to offer advice with stated grounds, limits, and practical scope.
Dwelling
Homes, offices, shops, and sites: selection, present conditions, priority issues, and layout.
View service →Destiny
BaZi-centered readings of timing, choices, and tendencies; never a substitute for medical, legal, or financial judgment.
View service →Timing
For confirmed moves, openings, or contracts, selecting a comparatively suitable time within real practical constraints.
View service →Service boundaryNo threats of calamity, promises to rewrite fate or create wealth, or use of Buddhism to endorse divination. Every judgment states its basis, limits, and practical scope.
A letter, once sent, is itself a matter of karma.
If a text has opened something for you, if daily life has raised a question, or if you hold material worth organizing together, write to us. Koken Shoja seeks to remain a lamp-lit desk where sources can be found, read, and carried onward.
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