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...World Peace March a delegation of Buddhist monks and nuns supporting disatmament, arrived in Cambridge yesterday to show support for the city's recent efforts to ward nuclear disarmament...

Author: By Donna GAIL Broussard, | Title: World Peace March Members Welcomed by City Councilors | 4/30/1982 | See Source »

...only weapons-grade plutonium plant: "These installations have been here for years, but I do think our people are now uncomfortably aware that South Carolina plays a far greater role than we would wish in nuclear matters." Even more remarkable has been the reception given to four saffron-clad Buddhist monks from Japan, who are trudging along highways in the South chanting prayers of peace. The monks believe that the ground they cross will be protected from nuclear war; they began their pilgrimage from New Orleans last January and hope to reach New York City by June. "We have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking About The Unthinkable | 3/29/1982 | See Source »

Shapiro, a Zen Buddhist, recalls that "Zen Master Shunryu Suzuki Roshi once said that one should not leave any traces of one's passage." Very much the adherent, Shapiro will no litter on the road on which he runs, but he certainly will muse at length about the remants of the drivers who preceded...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Notes from the Long Run | 3/2/1982 | See Source »

...Christians on Ikitsuki and neighboring islands, who were among the first to suffer, early on developed a way to preserve elements of their faith. Adopting a complex sham, they worshiped publicly at Buddhist temples, then slipped away at night to hold secret Christian prayer meetings. At home, they prayed overtly before Buddhist and Shinto altars, but their real altar became the nan do garni (closet god), innocuous-looking bundles of cloth in which revered Christian statues and medallions were hidden. For 2½ centuries, their fierce faith endured, but it inevitably also turned inward. Because their prayers and rituals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Japan's Crypto-Christians | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

Today on Ikitsuki, the center of the Kakure population, there are 80 house churches with their closet god. At such public ceremonies as Kakure funerals, a Buddhist priest is always asked to officiate, but, says one of them, "these people make sure to give a prayer in secret to erase the effect of ours." The sect's leader, the Ojisama (Revered Uncle), conducts a baptism-like ceremony with water drawn from a site of 17th century martyrdom...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Japan's Crypto-Christians | 1/11/1982 | See Source »

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