The great visiters from USA

Zuiun Matsuda

A chief priest Rev.Michael of Nichiren-syu Portland Oregon temple in USA
and his pupils visited my studio on April 18th.

	It seems that the art Buddhist image was pleased by Rev.Michael (chief priest.Buddhist name Ryuo) This art Buddhist image is The Eternal Buddha,"Kuon-jitujyo-no-hotoke" which is taught on the Lotus Sutra.
	Mr. MATT(Buddhist name Ryusin) has the USA Kannon image in his arms.
Mr. Philip(Buddhist name Ryujin) took a fancy to The Hiten(An engel). Zuiun Matsuda wanted to be a cartoonist in his high school days in the first place, but I became a sculptor and Buddhist priest.The hiten(An angel) image who flew to the world trade center in New york was carved by Zuiun in 1996 and was exhibited at my individual exhibition in New York on March 1996. Too bad thing was that the world trade center buildings were destroyed in the 9.11 terroism. I made a new web page with video of this image in Japanese. ! This page is Japanese only, sorry.
Mrs. Linda(Buddhist name Myokei) satisfied with The Byakue-Kannon image.
	They are all an eager priest and monk of Buddhism. And they are also the vegetarian. They want to spread the Buddhism to the pople of US. So do I. Why not? I want to make people of America aware of how wonderful the Lotus Sutra is and how fun it is to carve a Buddhist image too. Rev.Michael's web site Nichiren Buddhist Temple of Portland

Thank you so much for their visit.
We had a great time.

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