For the 147th London Eza, Dharma friends welcomed the world-renowned Buddhist scholar Professor Masahiro Shimoda of Tokyo University to join the annual Hoonko Otorikoshi ceremony, and were very much encouraged by his observation that the…continue reading
This year’s annual Ceremony to Pray for World Peace and Reconciliation was especially poignant since those veterans, both Japanese and British, who first gave birth to the reconciliation movement, have sadly now all passed away.…continue reading
The 145th London Eza was held at Three Wheels on 30th June. The focus of this Eza was a talk by Professor John White on the haiku poet and Buddhist, Matsuo Basho. The month of June is…continue reading
On the occasion of the April 2019 London Eza, which was also Shinran Shonin’s monthly memorial day, Rev. Kenshin Ishii gave a talk on the theme of ‘Meeting Amida’s Buddha’s Light in the Sangha’. As…continue reading
The 143rd London Eza was held on 24th February. Everything went smoothly in spite of the fact that Rev. Sato and Mrs Hiroko Sato were both absent from the Eza for the first time. Dharma…continue reading
Mrs Hiroko Sato (1944 - 2018), Dharma mother of the Three Wheels sangha and wife to Rev. Prof. Kemmyo Taira Sato, Director of Three Wheels, died very peacefully at 5.40am on Saturday 8th December after…continue reading
Following the close of the 22nd Shokai retreat the participants gathered, along with around ten additional guests, to pay respects to Shinran Shonin through the annual Hoonko Otorikoshi ceremony. Although the gathering was relatively small…continue reading
This year’s Ceremony to Pray for World Peace and Reconciliation, held on the occasion of the 140th London Eza, was yet again a profoundly moving and thought-provoking event in which we received vivid reminders of…continue reading
The London Eza of 17th June 2018 saw Mr Andrew Webb, a trustee and member of Three Wheels for almost two decades, give a talk entitled, “Just Say Something” - My Life in Sangha. It…continue reading
On the evening of Friday 20th April, during a spell of unseasonably warm weather, seventeen participants gathered for the commencement of the 21st Shokai Retreat, including one participant who was attending for the first time.After…continue reading
