| Description: | Come With Me As I Travel Through Japan In Search Of The Buddha And The Buddhist Ethic Ever Since My First Visit To Japan In 1962 I Have Been Fascinated By Japanese Culture To Date I Have Made Twenty Trips To Japan I Began Exploring Museums And Temples Where I Visited Some Of The Most Beautiful And Spectacular Art Work Of The Japanese Religions Looking At Some Of The Buddhist Art Work In Temples And Museums I Developed A Gripping Need To Learn More About What I Was Viewing I Had An Eagerness In Reading About Buddhism And Consumed Many Books On The Subject I Decided To Pursue Buddhist Terachings By Traveling Through Japan And Partaking In The Culture The First Trip, In 1981, Was A Journey Back And Forth Across The Inland Sea During Which I Encountered Many People Who Explained The Buddhist Religion To Me Ten Years Later In 1991, I Made A Pilgrimage By Walking Halfway Around The Island Of Shikoku Stopping At 42 Of The 88 Temples Built By The Monk Kukai It Was Here I Met Many Pilgrims And Temple Monks Who Continued My Buddhist Education These Two Trips Were Important Preliminary Components Of My Life Of A Practicing Buddhist - Albert Shansky |
