Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-15
J-SHIN//PROTOCOL: Buddhism’s Other Door into AI
An independent collective of Shin-connected builders, monks, scholars, and lay practitioners developing AI tools for Jodo Shinshu.
Why it surfacedThe project argues that most Buddhism-and-AI work is built around self-improvement, while Shin Buddhism begins from the collapse of self-power. Its homepage turns that thesis into an organizing principle, naming live projects including Hondaku.AI and Shinran.ai while inviting people to build without a membership fee, hierarchy, or institutional affiliation.
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The Two-Tonne Temperature Problem
August 15’s newborn domains include a live-aboard hydrogen airship with a two-tonne lift problem, a Japanese toolbox that explains its assumptions, an advisory-by-advisory Hawaiʻi hurricane archive, and a wedding-gift game about ungrateful poultry.
This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-15 Domain Arrivals issue.