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Money comes in through "voluntary" contributions, and most of it is lavished on its Taisekiji temple (which it hopes to make a national shrine) at the foot of Fujiyama and on some 130 branch temples scattered throughout Japan. Claiming a membership of 1,100,000 families, the current sect leader, Takashi Koizumi, 52, explains that the move into politics is "simply insurance. Several years ago we began getting official interference, and that was when we decided we must have our representatives in the Diet." As a happy afterthought, Koizumi adds: "Besides, having men who believe in Nichiren's teachings...
...took them five years to find the funds. When they had the money at last (about $270), the urn was opened, and there was Chih Hang-his body considerably thinned, but firm and uncorrupted. Last week, in another shrine, guarded by stone lions and surrounded by Buddha figures, Chih sat for his gilding. Throngs of pilgrims came carrying incense sticks, bearing rice offerings, dropping coins in collection boxes. Meanwhile, Chen Lu-kuan, a goldsmith from Taipei, covered the body with a lacquered silk cloth and tenderly began to apply gilt with a brush...
...Bartos, asked him to become a partner while remaining strictly Kiesler. Their collaboration resulted first in Manhattan's strange and elegant World House Galleries (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). Now ground is being broken for the partners' full-scale project at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: a gigantic shrine, to be entered from underground, and built around an 80-foot column of c water, to house the Dead Sea Scrolls...
...Philip Johnson's New Harmony Shrine, New Harmony, Ind., a bell-shaped structure with shingle roof that unabashedly owes its inspiration to Hindu temples, yet proved so complicated that an IBM machine took two weeks to calculate its compound curves...
...Emperor and Empress were barred from the wedding; they, like the rest of Japan, had to be satisfied with watching it on television. Nor did those present see much of the actual ceremony. Led by the white-robed Chief Ritualist, the little wedding procession quickly disappeared within the shrine. Crown Prince Akihito, wearing his saffron-yellow robes, was attended only by his grand chamberlain, a trainbearer, a Shinto priest, and another chamberlain carrying the 700-year-old sword, the symbol of Akihito's royal rank...