People who should be shot: Fascist thugs, religious fundamentalists, people who write lists telling you who should be shot.
-- Banksy

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LIVE @UCLAnthropology and on ZOOM

🌘Tues Feb 25, 6:30pm (London UTC)🌑
Erica Lagalisse
'On Anarchist Anthropology' in conversation with our own activist and radical anthropologist Chris Knight.

Erica is author of 'Occult Features of Anarchism' (PM Press, 2019). And many many popular anthropology zines!

Erica will be LIVE in the Daryll Forde, 2nd Floor of UCL Anthropology Dept. Come in good time by 6:30pm before doors close please. You can also join on ZOOM ID 384 186 2174 passcode Wawilak

#anarchism #anthropology #politics #activism #ethnography #conspiracytheory #religion

It is safe to say that Chan Buddhism has been completely infected by Confucianism thought when looking at how the orthodoxy works in instutionalized Japanese Zen Buddhism: extremely rigid hierarchy, respect to one’s superior above all else, stress put on maintaining the tradition and following rules.

When you read the *Recorded Sayings of Linji* for instance—one of the most important texts in the Rinzai sect of Japanese Zen Buddhism today—you can see Zen masters being challenged, yelled at, and even beaten, by Linji himself. All of this would be completely unthinkable in institutionalized Zen nowadays. This text just shows how iconoclastic and irreverent Chan could be, and, more importantly, how one could, through practice, become free of ego and social conventions, and ultimately how ungovernable one could become—something that should be of great interest to my good anarchists friend I reckon.

#anarchism #zen #buddhism

I also keep forgetting, if you are an archivist (particulary of japanese stuff) or good sleuth i'd love help finding digital copies of the early copies of the Heimin Shinbun newspaper. (平民新聞). From 1904-1908 (Meiji 37-41) specifically. #buddhism #japanese #日本語 #anarchism much love❤️! Uchiyama Gudo was known to contribute from time to time and I just cant find any. Please and thank you!

Newest translation! This is another Ichikawa Hakugen piece (it will be him for awhile) expanding on another piece I have yet to acquire, delving into the nature of 自由 (freedom) in both zen contexts and the socialist movement at large. Much love❤️!
#socialism #anarchism #buddhism #zen #translation #philosophy

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ichikawa-hakugen-universal-suffering#toc5

Another one I did! A short essay by Ichikawa Hakugen on the status of Intellectuals in Zen and Socialist organizing more broadly. He was a Rinzai priest and philosophy professor who survived WWII era repression and wrote feverishly until his death in 1986, castigating fascist Buddhism and the old Imperial system, among other things.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/ichikawa-hakugen-intellectuals-and-zen

#buddhism #anarchobuddhism #translation #japanese #仏教 #日本語 #anarchism #無政府主義

First one I completed a while back. Prison writings of one Uchiyama Gudo. Soto Zen priest and active anarchist organizer around during the Meiji Period. He distributed food from the temple he ran, ran an underground printing press and encouraged peasant unionism and taught children how to read. He was imprisoned and later executed by the government for his radical views.

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/uchiyama-gudo-thoughts-during-imprisonment

#buddhism #anarchobuddhism #translation #japanese #仏教 #日本語 #anarchism #無政府主義

Introduction post!
Hello all! I'm Iggyu and i amateurly translate (mostly Japanese) anarcho-buddhist texts. I will likely just post the link to the translation on the anarchist library. I can share source material too if any are interested. Itd also be fun to find other anarcho buddhists if yall are out there! We can chat and whatnot. Buddha loves you and so do i! #buddhism #anarchobuddhism #translation #japanese #仏教 #日本語 #anarchism #無政府主義