This page features resources relating to chaplaincy in the categories of education, training, clinical pastoral education, and publications.
Chaplaincy Endorsement Guidelines
Click the button below to open PDF for Buddhist Chaplains Seeking Endorsement, as well as for Sanghas to be Endorsing Bodies (link to video of endorsement workshop here)
Resource List
University of the West
Sweetwater Zen Center
Zen Center of Los Angeles
International Buddhist Chaplaincy Foundation
Chaplaincy Innovation Lab
Buddhist Chaplaincy Department
Zen Peacemaker Order
Buddhist Healthy Boundaries
Center for Lay Chaplaincy
Buddhist Chaplaincy @ Chaplaincy Innovation Lab
Jitsujo’s Substack
Publications
Gauthier, Jitsujo T. “American Buddhist Chaplaincy Supervision.” In Gleig, Ann, and Scott A. Mitchell, eds. The Oxford Handbook of American Buddhism. Oxford University Press, 2024.
Gauthier, Jitsujo T. “Buddhist Chaplaincy in the US.” In Arai, Paula, and Kevin Trainor, eds. The Oxford handbook of Buddhist practice. Oxford University Press, 2022.
Gauthier, T. Jitsujo. “Formation and Supervision in Buddhist Chaplaincy.” Reflective Practice: Formation and Supervision in Ministry. 37 (2017): 185-201. http://journals.sfu.ca/rpfs/index.php/rpfs/article/viewFile/477/461
Gauthier, Tina Jitsujo. “Hope in the Midst of Suffering: a Buddhist Perspective.” Journal of Pastoral Theology. 26.2 (2016): 133-137.http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10649867.2016.1244412
Gauthier, Tina Jitsujo. “’I am a Woman’: Finding Freedom and Seeing Clearly.” Sakyadita USA & American Buddhist Women. 12 (2016): http://americanbuddhistwomen.com/tina-jitsujo-gauthier.html
Gauthier, Tina, Rika M. L. Meyer, Dagmar Grefe, and Jeffrey I. Gold. “An On-the-Job Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Pediatric ICU Nurses: a Pilot.” Journal of Pediatric Nursing. 30.2 (2015): 402-409.
Gauthier, Tina Jitsujo. “ “Sickness and Hospitalization Visitation,” In Michon, Nathan J, and Daniel C. Fisher. A Thousand Hands: A Guidebook to Caring for Your Buddhist Community, 2016.
Gauthier, Tina S. An On-the-Job Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Pediatric ICU Nurses. Ph. D. Dissertation Manuscript, University of the West, 2013.
Meditation to Help Reduce Stress. 2013 https://www.chla.org/blog/hospital-programs/meditation-help-reduce-stress
Gauthier, T.S., “The Legacy of Master Yuan-wu’s Blue Cliff Record: Through the Eyes of Western Scholarship.” “茶禅一味” Chan Master Yuanwu Keqin Conference Publication. Zhao Jue Temple (昭覺寺) Chengdu, Sichuan China, 2010.
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