The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1707 page)

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Ninomiya Sontoku
(founder of Japanese religious movement):
see
H
TOKU
.
Ninth of Av
(Heb.,
Tishah be-Av
). Jewish fast day, which commemorates the destruction of the first and second
Temples
in 586 BCE and 70 CE.
Nippon
(origin of the sun):
Nipponzan My
h
ji
.
A Japanese Buddhist revival movement, founded in 1917 by Fujii Nichidatsu (1884–1985), based on the teachings of
Nichiren
. It is therefore also known as the Movement of the Wondrous Law of the Lotus S
tra. Its basic practice is the repetition of the name of the
Lotus S
tra
. It organizes marches for peace, and builds peace
pagodas
throughout the world (in the UK at Milton Keynes and in Battersea Park). Fujii's book,
Beating Celestial Drums
, reflects the practice of beating the drum of heaven to extend the reverberations of peace.

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