{"id":11425,"date":"2024-08-14T13:01:21","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T17:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/?p=11425"},"modified":"2024-09-19T12:11:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T16:11:41","slug":"intro-to-shin-buddhism-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/blog\/2024\/08\/14\/intro-to-shin-buddhism-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Intro to Shin Buddhism Course &#8211; Renew your life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Renew Your Life &#8211; Unlock Grace, Gratitude, and Generosity<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Starting October 6, 2024<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>This 3-month and 3 session,\u00a0<em>Intro to Shin Buddhism<\/em>\u00a0<em>Course<\/em>\u00a0offers a practical, comprehensive, and non-academic exploration of Shin Buddhism, also known as\u00a0<em>Jodo Shinshu<\/em>, using the easy-to-read and acclaimed introductory primer,\u00a0<em>Ocean<\/em>, by the author, scholar and Shin Minister, Kenneth Tanaka. This course provides plenty of discussion and opportunities to better\u00a0understand and live the Shin teachings in order to discover your purpose and transform your life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Dates:&nbsp;<\/strong>Sunday mornings,&nbsp;<strong>Oct. 6, Nov 3, Dec. 22<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bcabookstore.org\/ \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"193\" height=\"293\" src=\"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/book-ocean-1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11482\" style=\"width:195px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>Time &amp; Place:<\/strong>&nbsp;The course will meet right after the Practice &amp; Talk Gathering, at the Buddhist Faith Fellowship in Middletown, from&nbsp;<strong>10:35 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Pre-registration is required<\/strong>. No walk-ins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Course Credit:<\/strong>&nbsp;The successful completion of this course will count towards meeting one of the necessary course requirements towards formally becoming a Shin Buddhist, and earning an Affirmation Certificate with a Buddhist name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>To learn more and to register<\/strong>, go to our web page, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/intro-to-shin-buddhism-course\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"10138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Renew Your Life &#8211; Unlock Grace, Gratitude, and Generosity Starting October 6, 2024 This 3-month and 3 session,\u00a0Intro to Shin Buddhism\u00a0Course\u00a0offers a practical, comprehensive, and non-academic exploration of Shin Buddhism, also known as\u00a0Jodo Shinshu, using the easy-to-read and acclaimed introductory primer,\u00a0Ocean, by the author, scholar and Shin Minister, Kenneth Tanaka. This course provides plenty of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","ctfw-has-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11425"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11571,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11425\/revisions\/11571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bffct.org\/bff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}