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Originally published on the Unity and Diversity World Council Website here, June, 2019 I am both ordained as an interfaith minister with UDC and a priest within the Japanese Buddhist tradition called Shingon. Yet Shingon, a 1200-year-old branch of Buddhism and among the oldest of the main sects in Japan, also has some interfaith aspects
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From the Fall 2019 edition of Skylight Originally Published Friday, November 1st 2019, 11:16am As a doctoral candidate in the GTU’s Department of Historical and Cultural Studies in Religions, I have been based in Sendai, Japan, for most of my dissertation research. Unlike Tokyo, Osaka, or Kyoto, the city of Sendai isn’t well known to
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