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- Tsuji was a Shin Buddhist Minister and the first Canadian-born Buddhist Minister. In 1946 Reverend Tsuji, and others, held the first Obon service in Canada. In 1947 they founded what became the Toronto Buddhist Church.
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Reverend Tsuji was the first Buddhist to be president of the United States affiliate of the World Conference on Religion and Peace from 1983 to 1989. In 1993 he was a guest at the White House Interfaith Breakfast with President Bill Clinton .
Mar 10, 2004 · The Rev. Kenryu T. Tsuji, 84, the first U.S. citizen to serve as bishop of the 105-year-old Buddhist Churches of America, the largest Buddhist group in the Japanese American community, died...
Feb 13, 2024 · Rev. Tsuji was not only the camp Buddhist minister, but principal of the school. Sakaye Kawabata became a teacher at the school. Although Sakaye’s parents didn’t want her to marry a minister, knowing it wouldn’t be an easy life, that’s what she wanted to do.
Mar 4, 2004 · The Rev. Tsuji, the first North American-born bishop in the Buddhist Churches of America, died Friday in San Mateo. He was 84.
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Mar 10, 2004 · On March 10, 2004 The Washington Post reported, "The Rev. Kenryu T. Tsuji, 84, the first U.S. citizen to serve as bishop of the 105-year-old Buddhist Churches of America, the largest Buddhist group in the Japanese American community, died of pneumonia Feb. 26 in San Mateo, Calif.
Reverend Tsuji is the founding minister of the Ekoji Buddhist Temple. He and Rev. Dr. Yehan Numata, a Japanese philanthropist, shared a vision of having a Shin Buddhist temple on the East Coast. The temple opened in 1981.
Ekoji History. Ekoji, the “Temple of the Gift of Light”, started with a group of Shin Buddhist families who wanted a Dharma school for their children. Through the guidance of Rev. Tsuji and his wife, Ekoji grew into a sangha (community of people).
