Hospice and Care for the Dying

• Video: Buddhist Priests in Japan: Regular Home Visits Serve as Guideposts for Life and Death Winter 2022
• Buddhist Approaches to Dying and Hospice Care in Taiwan (Public Symposium at Dharma Drum Mountain, November 22, 2017)
• The Saimyo-ji Temple-Hospital Care Facility: Continuing the Ancient Tradition of Holistic Care from Buddhist Temples by Rev./Dr. Masahiro Tanaka and Dr. Teiga Tanaka
• Preparing for a Peaceful Death in the Thai Theravada Tradition by the Spiritual Friends of Supaporn Pongpruk (2008)
• Amans: A Buddhist Nun’s Efforts to Unite the Medical and Religious Worlds in Death – Rev. Keido Iijima
• アマンズ のダイアローグ：「遺族外来」のある病院 – 飯島惠道
• 医師の「役割」を考える：僧侶が医学部で異色の授業（戸松義晴）
• 緩和ケアビハーラ病棟の五年間 ：林茂一郎
• 医療・ 仏教・死の現場～海外の事例が日本に示唆するもの：ジョナサン・ワッツ
• 台湾の「公共的仏教」：終末期ケアのための臨床仏教運動 ：ジョナサン・ワッツ

Publication: Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved in the Modern World

Edited by Jonathan S. Watts and Yoshiharu Tomatsu (Wisdom Publication – Boston & the Jodo Shu Research Institute – Tokyo, 2012)

• An Introduction to Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved in the Modern World – Jonathan Watts 日本語
• Challenges of Caring for the Aging and Dying: Lessons from Japan by Carl B. Becker
• Tear Down the Wall: Bridging the Pre-Mortem and Post-Mortem Worlds in Japanese Medical and Spiritual Care – Rev. Yoshiharu Tomatsu
• “True View”: Shifting to the Patient’s Standpoint of Suffering in a Buddhist Hospital – Dr. Hayashi Moichiro
• The Vihara Movement: Buddhist Chaplaincy and Social Welfare in Japan – Rev. Yozo Taniyama
•  One Dies as One Lives: The Importance of Developing Pastoral Care Services and Religious Education – Rev. Mari Sengoku
• TAIWAN: The Development of Indigenous Hospice Care and Clinical Buddhism in Taiwan– Jonathan Watts & Rev. Yoshiharu Tomatsu 日本語
• THAILAND: The Seven Factors of a Peaceful Death: A Theravada Buddhist Approach to Dying – Phaisan Visalo
• CAMBODIA: Actualizing Understanding: Compassion, AIDS, Death, and Dying among the Poor – Beth Kanji Goldring
• UNITED KINGDOM: The Birth of a New Culture of Active Dying: The Role of Buddhism in Practices and Attitudes Toward Death – Caroline Prasada Brazier
• GERMANY: Buddhist Influences on the Scientific, Medical, and Spiritual Cultures of Caring for the Dying – Jonathan S. Watts and Yoshiharu Tomatsu
• USA: Being with Dying: Contemplative End-of-Life Training Program – Joan Jiko Halifax
• USA: Zen Approaches to Terminal Care and Buddhist Chaplaincy Training – Jonathan S. Watts and Yoshiharu Tomatsu
• USA: “Listening to the Dharma”: Integrating Buddhism into a Multifaith Health Care Environment – Julie Chijo Hanada