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Rev. Prof. Kemmyo Taira Sato

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Rev. Prof. Kemmyo Taira Sato is a Shin Buddhist priest and a former pupil of the Zen scholar D.T. Suzuki. In 1994 he founded Three Wheels in London, a branch of Shogyoji temple in Japan in the Jōdo Shinshū tradition, where services, retreats and eza, gatherings to meet and sit with Dharma talks in English, are held. Since 1997 Three Wheels has also held an annual ceremony of peace and reconciliation between British and Japanese war veterans.

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Rev. Prof. Kemmyo Taira Sato

Rev. Prof. Kemmyo Taira Sato is a Shin Buddhist priest and a former pupil of the Zen scholar D.T. Suzuki. In 1994 he founded Three Wheels in London, a branch of Shogyoji temple in Japan in the Jōdo Shinshū tradition, where services, retreats and eza, gatherings to meet and sit with Dharma talks in English, are held. Since 1997 Three Wheels has also held an annual ceremony of peace and reconciliation between British and Japanese war veterans.

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