Jizo For Peace
Posted By tok_jonah On May 31, 2005 @ 11:07 pm In Uncategorized | Comments Disabled
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地蔵 じぞう Jizo at Daisho-in [2]
Found this while reading up on Jizo. A popular Buddhist deity in Japan and the protector of miscarried, stillborn and aborted children, he is being used by members of the Great Vow Zen monastery [3] to raise awareness of the dangers posed by the nuclear armament this August 6th and 9th, the 60th anniversary of the A-bomb detonations over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The monastery hopes to deliver 270,000 Jizo images to Hiroshima in time for the anniversary. “…one Jizo for every man, woman, and child who died as a result of the atomic bombs.” [4]
From the site:
Create Jizos [5] and Contribute Funds [6].
Article printed from Tokyo Metblogs: http://tokyo.metblogs.com
URL to article: http://tokyo.metblogs.com/2005/05/31/jizo-for-peace/
URLs in this post:
[1] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arsblog/16653494/
[2] 地蔵 じぞう Jizo at Daisho-in: http://www.flickr.com/photos/arsblog/
[3] Great Vow Zen monastery: http://www.greatvow.org/
[4] “…one Jizo for every man, woman, and child who died as a result of the atomic bombs.”: http://www.jizosforpeace.org/index.html
[5] Create Jizos: http://www.jizosforpeace.org/create.html
[6] Contribute Funds: http://www.jizosforpeace.org/contribute.html
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