Tohoku Earthquake Memorial Sutra Mound

Rieko Sekine, who is one of the representatives of the project (10,000 shakyo for Japan / Tohoku Earthquake Memorial Sutra Mound Executive Committee) requests that people around the world to participate in the making of shakyo, which is the hand-copying of the Heart Sutra for the victims of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident.

The participants of the Committee will recite each of the shakyo one by one in a Buddhist ceremony (Gongyou). After that, they will bury all the collected copies at the top of Mt. Gassan (literally "Moon Mountain" in Japanese) which represents the three sacred Mountains of Dewa where the souls of the victims of the Tohoku Earthquake are to rest in peace, and at the same time they will erect a "Tohoku Earthquake Memorial Sutra Mound" at the site on October 9th. In addition, they plan to broadcast the ceremony on either ustream or youtube.

The Committee’s aspiration would chant together with the people around the world that the devastated area will be reconstructed as soon as possible and that all the victims can be relieved from terrible sufferings and hardships.

To download the template for hand-writing the Sutra click on this link for the pdf :
http://homepage.mac.com/ssxlh1200/10000sfj/dl/hannyas_in_dl.pdf
or the website on facebook "10,000 Shakyo for Japan"
http://www.facebook.com/pages/10000-Shakyo-for-Japan/20026808000397

They are anticipating to collect 10,000 shakyo by the end of August.

your faithfully,
Rieko Sekine

10,000 Shakyo for Japan / Tohoku Earthquake Memorial Sutra Mound”

Executive Committee Chairman: Hoshino Fumihiro
(Dewa Sanzan Haguro-san Shokubo “Daiseibo”)
Yamagata Prefecture, Tsuruoka City, Haguro Town, Toge 99　

Head of the Secretariat: Sekine Rieko
Tokyo, Kiyose City, Noshio 1-348-5

seki-hase@mail.goo.ne.jp

Adviser and Translator: Sekine Yasumitsu
jack_yasumitsu_sekine@yahoo.co.jp

address:

10,000 Shakyo for Japan
Poste Restant
Kiyose Noshio PostOffice
kiyose,Noshio 204-0004
Japan

e-mail: 10000shakyoforjapan@gmail.com
10,000 Shakyo for Japan