| A course: Traditional
religion and new religion: 78 participants |
Places
we will Visit:
Shinnyo-en, Emperor's Tomb, Mt. Takao, Yakou-in Temple
Assemble at the main entrance of Takanawa Prince Hotel
at 7:40
Special lecturer:
Mr. Kentaro Inui, MA
Schedule:
Congress venue at 8:00 ---- Highway----Shinnyo-en(2 hours)----Drive
by the Emperor's Tomb
---- Lunch at a Hotel ----at the foot of Mt. Takao ---- Climb
by cable tram---- Attend mystical service of 'Ogoma' at Yakuou-inTemple(30
minutes)----Visit the main temple----at the foot of Mt. Takao----19:15
return to the Venue.
Special Points Requiring
your Attention:
1. We have been accepted as special guests by the Shinnyo-en
religious organization, a new Buddhism denomination, on the
special festival of the birthday of its founder. Professor
Michael Pye will have a speech on our behalf. You are requested
to wear jacket and to abstain from wearing unmatched clothing
such as jeans, going bare-foot or wearing sandals.
2. Mt. Takao, a mountain in the suburbs of Tokyo, is famous
for the mountainous Buddhist traditions called 'Shugen-do,'
where monks commit ascetic discipline. As we will walk on
roughly paved lanes for about 20 minutes, high-heeled shoes
are not appropriate. Also, it can still be cold in the mountainous
area and one should be equipped for coldness and rain. |
| B course: Shinto and
Buddhism in Tokyo: 71 participants |
Places we will Visit:
Meiji-Shrine, Yasukuni Shrine, Senso-ji Buddhist Temple.
Assemble at the main entrance of Takanawa Prince Hotel at
8:10.
Special lecturer: Professor Kunimitsu Kawamura
Time Schedule:
Venue at 8:30----Meiji Shrine(45minutes)----Visit Yasukuni Shrine
and Yushu-kwan museum (2hours)----Lunch at KKR Hotel Tokyo----Visit
Sensoji Temple Compound (Japanese traditional garden at Denpo-in
residence and guest house of the arch-monk ----Main Hall of worship----Free
time for shopping at Nakamise main street)----Assemble in the parking
lot----Return to the venue at 18:00.
Information
Yasukuni-Shrine is the place where the dead spirits of war
victims were collected and enshrined. The rite of calling
the dead spirits can be grasped by the model of the rite and
other materials housed in the Yushu-Kwan Museum, which is
actually a kind of war memorial museum.
The Senso-ji Buddhist Temple complex and its main street,
called "Nakamise," are expected to be
terribly crowded with visitors and we should be careful not
to go astray. |
| C course: Kawasaki-Daishi
and China town: 33 participants. |
Places we will Visit:
Kawasaki-Daishi Temple, Kanayama-Shrine, Yokohama China Town,
Yokohama Archives of History, Japanese Oversea Migration Museum,
and Foreigners' Cemetery.
Assemble at the main entrance of Takanawa Prince Hotel at
7:50.
Special lecturer:
Professor Hirochika Nakamaki.
Time Schedule:
Venue at 8:10----Kawasaki-Daishi Buddhist Temple, attend the mystical
rite called Ogoma(30 minutes)----Kanayama-Shrine and its phallus
worship, which is newly connected with AIDS-patients----Yokohama
China Town(including lunch)----Drive thru Foreigners' Cemetery----Yokohama
Archives of History(30 minutes)----Japanese Oversea Migration
Museum(1 hour)----Arrive at the venue at 17:00.
| D course: One day
Medieval Kamakura: 114 participants. |
Places we will Visit:
Daibutsu (Big Statue of the Buddha), Koumyou-ji Temple (special
Buddhist vegetarian Lunch), Tsurugaoka-Hachimangu Shrine, Kencho-ji
Zen Temple, Engaku-ji Zen Temple.
Assemble at the main entrance of Takanawa Prince Hotel at
7:30.
Special lecturer: Professor Kenji Matsuo.
Time Schedule:
Venue 7:50----Daibutsu (visit inside and guest house, garden:
Japanese tea and tea cakes will be served)(1hour)----Koumyou-ji
Temple (Special vegetarian lunch 'Shojin-Ryori' with special performance
of the dance of Nenbutsu-chanting)----Tsurugaoka-Hachimangu Shrine
(Central Shrine of the City)----Kencho-ji Zen Temple (Visiting
sacred precinct of the founder's tomb, Japanese tea will be served
at the guest hall)(2hours)----Engaku-ji Zen Temple---- Return
to Congress venue at 19:00.
Information:
As each place we will visit is expected to be very crowded on
Sunday of the spring season and we are a large group of over 100
members with three buses, we should be careful to stay with our
group at all times and not to go astray.
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