New Book “Not Just Good, but Beautiful” includes Abt. Takeuchi’s Lecture

With the theme of ‘The Complementary Relationship between Man and Woman’, the ‘Humanum’ International and Interreligious Colloquium was held at Synod Hall, Vatican City in November 2014, where Abt. Nissho Takeuchi, Chairman of Daiseion-Ji, was invited to make a speech as a representative of Buddhism. Today we are pleased to announce this speech is included…

22-23 June 2015 All Japan Young Buddhist Association in Okinawa

Rev. Shokei Steffens, Deputy Chair of Daiseion-Ji Germany participated in the National Meeting of the All Japan Young Buddhist Association (JYBA) in Naha City, Okinawa on 22 June 2015. Following a lecture “Learning Okinawa’s History” and Peace Commemorating Ceremony by the members of JYBA, the Interreligious Dialogue Symposium was held in the afternoon. The panelists…

Daiseion-Ji e.V. 15th Anniversary – Inter-Religious Dialogue Symposium

Welcome! Daiseion-Ji, a temple of the Nichiren-shu traditional Buddhism and center for inter-religious dialogue, was founded in 2000 with the purpose of promoting mutual cooperation and dialogues between different world religions. Today – 15 years since the foundation of Daiseion-Ji – this task appears more pressing and more important than ever before: How can we deal with the…

Abt. Takeuchi Presents at Humanum Conference in Vatican

Abt. Takeuchi, Chairperson of Daiseion-Ji, presented in ‘Humanum Inter-religious Dialogue Symposium‘ at Synod Hall in Vatican, November 17-19, 2014. Over 30 speakers came together from all over the world and presented their views and insights on family and marriage, and their value in society, based on the theme ‘the complementarity of man and woman.’ The presenters…

December 18, 2013 Abt. Takeuchi Addresses at Inter-religious Dialogue Forum

As the velocity of globalisation continues to increase, our modern society in the 21st Century has become a literally pluralistic society. Becoming pluralistic society means that human beings who have different races and ethnicities, thoughts and religions, and cultures and civilisations live together in one society. The critical issue in this pluralistic society is conflicts…

Proceeding: Creating the Future through Dialogue

We are delighted to announce the publication of the memorial proceeding, “Creating the Future through Dialogue” available in German, English, and Japanese. The inter-religious symposium ‘Collisions Among Differing Religions and Cultures in the 21st Century’ was held in July 2003, celebrating the re-construction of Daiseion-Ji, an international exchange centre with a mission of promoting inter-religious dialogues…