| | On peace and war: Excerpt from the Crooked Cucumber, chapter six, Wartime - 1940—1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | There was a service at Rinso-in one Monday morning with just his family in attendance, for Buddha's enlightenment day, the most important day in the Zen Buddhist year. |
 | | During his stay at Rinso-in, Nishinakama had come up with the idea of starting a type of peace corps in the rural areas of China, as a model of how Japan could move from military to peaceful activity. |
 | | So the chukonhi was moved to a spot in front of Rinso-in, and Shunryu held a service there for the war dead and enshrined it. |
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