IBYE 2021

What is IBYE

IBYE (International Buddhist Youth Exchange) is held every year in Asian countries to foster a wide range of global human resources. Young people gather in the host country and deepen mutual understanding by learning the culture and history of each other's countries. It is a program that can enhance human maturity to experience profound international exchange opportunities.

This year will be the first online event due to the pandemic. With the theme, " Hope in the Post-Covid-19 Era: BREAKING OUT FROM THE CHRYSALIS," we must consider the future after the end of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The keynote speech will be open to the public for free. Intellectuals and priests from Japan and abroad will take their thoughts one step further with you. We hope that this IBYE 2021 will help many people with hints to live in this unprecedented crisis.

After corona
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Paradigm shift

Looking ahead to the end of the new coronavirus

The paradigm shift will accelerate from 2020, when the new coronavirus spreads around the world, and the conventional way of doing things will change, such as the spread of online communication and the decrease of face-to-face communication.
There is no doubt that we are in the midst of a paradigm shift.
Now that the light of vaccines has come into view, it is an opportunity to think about the future together with everyone, looking after the end of corona.

SDGs
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Buddhism

The potential of Buddhist SDGs

Buddhism, which is especially familiar to Asians, has taken root in people's lives for 2500 years and has helped.
And SDGs that lead people living in the present and children who will bear the future to happiness.
Together with you, we will consider the potential of Buddhism's SDGs to know the past and create the future by multiplying the two with high affinity.

Anthropocene
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Future

For the Anthropocene and the world

The word Anthropocene, which means the age of humans.
There are many points in thinking about anthropocene, such as "climate change", "population explosion", "gene modification", "lifespan", "disparity society" and "space development".
Think together about issues and future predictions that arise from changes in humankind and the earth.
What should we do for the future?

IBYE 2021 program

Friday, August 20

Part 1 (public)

14:00 Login start
14:30 Opening Ceremony
Mourning prayer
Introduction of WFBY
Introduction of JYBA
Introduction of Club25 Japan

Part 2 (public)

Lecturer introduction
Keynote speech 1
After corona
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Paradigm shift
Question-and-answer session
Summary

Part 3

International exchange
Fellowship
20:00 End of the first day

Saturday, August 21

Part 1 (public)

12:30 Login start
13:00 Prayer for the end of the new coronavirus

Part 2 (public)

Message from Christianity
Messages from Islam
Lecturer introduction
Keynote speech 2
The world's three major religions
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SDGs
Question-and-answer session

Part 3

International exchange
Workshop 1
Group announcement
Summary
20:30 End of the second day

Sunday, August 22

Part 1 (public)

12:30 Login start
13:00 Prayer for achieving SDGs

Part 2 (public)

Lecturer introduction
Keynote speech 3
SDGs
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Buddhism
Mindfulness experience

Part 3

International exchange
Workshop 2
Group announcement
Summary
Closing session
19:00 Ends on the last day

Tesshu Shaku

Jodo Shinshu Honganji School Nyorai-ji priest, Professor of Faculty of Humanities, Soai University, Representative of Relife, a specified non-profit organization. Specializes in comparative religion and anthropology.
Born in Osaka. Completed the doctoral course at the Department of Comparative Culture, Graduate School of Human Culture, Osaka Prefecture University.
After that, he worked as a part-time lecturer at Ryukoku University Faculty of Letters and a professor at Hyogo University Faculty of Lifelong Welfare, alongside the chief priest of Nyorai Temple.
The Lacrimal Bone Award for Excellence (5th) in the treatise "Fabian Fucan Theory", the Kawai Hayao Arts Award (5th) for "Buddhism Blooming in Rakugo", and the Buddhist Missionary Culture Award / Numata Encouragement Award (5th) Eleven times).

Tatsuru Uchida

Japanese French scholar, martial artist (Director of Aikido Kaifukan, Aikido 7th Dan, Iaido 3rd Dan, Jodo 3rd Dan), translator, thinker.
Professor Emeritus of Kobe College, Visiting Professor of Faculty of Humanities, Kyoto Seika University. Specializes in contemporary French thought.
Born in Tokyo. Graduated from the Faculty of Letters, University of Tokyo. Completed the master's program at the Graduate School of Humanities, Tokyo Metropolitan University.
After that, he worked as an assistant professor in the Department of Cultural Studies, Faculty of Letters, Kobe College, and a professor at the same university.
Received the Hideo Kobayashi Award for "Private Edition / Jewish Culture Theory", the New Book Award for "Japan Frontier Theory", and the Juzo Itami Award for all writing activities.

Yoshinobu Miyake

Born in Osaka in 1958. Completed the master's program at the Graduate School of Theology, Doshisha University.
He has served as a researcher at Harvard University Institute for World Religion, a part-time lecturer at Osaka Medical University, and President of Konko Church of Izuo. Participated in international conferences and seminars overseas about 200 times.
Currently, he is also the chairman of the International Shinto Studies Association, the chairman of the Kansai United Nations Association, the representative director of Lernet Co., Ltd., the standing director of the Colmos Conference, the director of the WCRP Japan Committee, the director of the IARF International Finance, and the member of the Konkokyo cult.
Presided over YouTube channel "Japan DNA". He has written many books, including "Cold Chicken: How Humans Have Faced Infectious Diseases".

Chang Phap Kham

Thich Nhat Hanh's younger brother and director of the Plum Village Asian Institute for Applied Buddhism.
He promotes Buddhism and mindfulness at Plum Village, Europe's largest Buddhist monastery, opened in 1982 in southern France.

*Thich Nhat Hanh is a Zen priest and poet from Vietnam. Along with the 14th Dalai Lama, he is a leading Buddhist who has been engaged in peace operations since the 20th century and is the name of Engaged Buddhism.

Issho Fujita

Born in Ehime prefecture in 1954. After graduating from the Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, the University of Tokyo, he dropped out of the doctoral program at the same graduate school and became a priest of the Soto sect.
Since 1987, he has moved to the United States as a priest at the Zen temple in the western part of Massachusetts, USA. When Thich Nhat Hanh came to Japan in 1995, he was invited as one of the interpreting teams to accompany him on the tour.
Returned to Japan in 2005. From 2010 to 2018, Director of the Soto Sect International Center in San Francisco.
He presides over an unconventional zazen meditation in Hayama Town, Kanagawa Prefecture.