November 15 was the BDK Temple Walk starting and ending at Hawaii Betsuin, also taking in Foster Botanical Garden, Soto Mission of Hawaii, and Honolulu Myohoji Mission. See a bit of what we saw in this short video.

Mahalo, BDK, for the collaboration and we look forward to doing it again someday!

BDK is the Society for the Promotion of Buddhism, and they provide free books on Buddhism, e.g., the orange “The Teaching of Buddha.” Find them online by searching for “BDK Hawaii.” Dr. George Tanabe is president of BDK Hawaii.

Consistent with Dr. Tanabe’s experimentation with AI tools, the background music was generated using Songer.co and the prompt, “Japanese-influence, bright, shakuhachi, outdoors, walking, sun, temples, shamisen, Hawaii, friends, learning.” We’re not sure why the sound is more Latin, but we’re going with it! 😄

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