Terasawa Junsei

Junsei Terasawa (寺沢潤世)
Junsei Terasawa (寺沢潤世)
	Rev. Junsei Terasawa. Japan, 2005
Title	Nipponzan Myōhōji
Personal
Born	September 15, 1950; Hakui, Ishikawa, Noto Peninsula, Japan
Religion	Buddhism
Nationality	Japanese
Occupation	monk-peacemaker and teacher in Eurasia
Senior posting
Predecessor	Nichidatsu Fujii
Website	https://www.facebook.com/Terasava

Junsei Terasawa (Japanese: 寺沢潤世, Russian: Дзюнсэй Тэрасава, Ukrainian: Дзюнсей Терасава; September 15, 1950) is a Japanese Buddhist monk, belonging to the Order Nipponzan Myōhōji. He is notable for being the first Nipponzan monk to be active in Eurasia.

Being a respected mentor, surnamed Terasawa-sensei or simply Sensei, he has undertaken many years of monastic peacemaking practices in India, Europe and the former Soviet Union. Presently, he teaches groups of monks from Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and China. In 2000 he was forbidden to enter Russia in opposition to War in Chechnya.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Biography[]

Peace Pagoda with coordinates 52°03′28″N 0°43′32″W / 52.057697°N 0.725436°W, built Nipponzan Myōhōji in 1980. Milton Keynes, England is the first Peace Pagoda in the western hemisphere.

Peace Pagoda with coordinates 51°28′55″N 0°09′32″W / 51.482018°N 0.159025°W (London, England) built by Nipponzan Myōhōji in 1985.

Rev. Terasawa-Sensei with Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō on his drum^[4] and in his famous hat with leader Inter Religious Federation World Peace Dr. Frank Kaufmann. Jerusalem, 2003.

Junsei Terasawa was born on September 15, 1950 into a poor family in the small town of Hakui, Ishikawa on Noto Peninsula, Japan. Junsei was the second son in the family.

In Hakui is an ancient Mound, one of the oldest Shinto temples. It is here that the sacred practice of sumo wrestling was first conceived. There is a Christian church there too, a place that Junsei would often visit as a young man.

Under the influence of the presence of local shrines, spiritual pacifist Leo Tolstoy and active nonviolent resistor Mahatma Gandhi, Terasawa, at 17 years went forth into homelesness to go to Tokyo and join a unique peacemaking Nipponzan Myōhōji activity, led by its founder teacher Nichidatsu Fujii.

Under the guidance of Fujii, he organized and conducted many mass peacemaking actions. This included founding the Peace Pagodas in Milton Keynes and London, England. For the sake of Peace in Europe, shortly before the Berlin Wall Fall, he conducted a seven day prayer without food and water on the grave of Karl Marx, burned his finger phalanx and made a Peace March from Warsaw to the wall.^[5]

Rev. Terasava participated in the annual sessions of the UN Commission on Human Rights in Geneva as a representative of the International Peace Bureau and is one of the advisors for the Inter Religious Federation for World Peace, headed by Dr Frank Kaufmann.^[6]^[7]^[8]

As one of the leading activists of the nonviolent movement in Europe of the end of the Cold War, Terasawa-sensei suggested Ukrainian religious leaders make a joint application for peace and a non-violent society in Ukraine.^[9] On the day of commemoration for those killed on Kyiv Maydan, he initiated yet another peace walk^[10] in Kiev and cities of south-eastern Ukraine.^[11]

Notes[]

^ Мёходзи 2006: «Terasawa-sensei has served as a monk for 39 years: 6 years in India, 15 in Europe and 16 years — in the former Soviet Union. (Russian: Тэрасава-сэнсэй имеет 39-летний опыт монашеской практики: 6 лет в Индии, 15 лет в Европе и уже 16 лет — в бывшем Советском Союзе. Сейчас он обучает небольшую группу монахов из России, Украины, Казахстана, а также Китая. С 2000 года въезд в Россию ему закрыт из-за выступлений против войны в Чечне.)»
^ Credo.Ru 14 February 2012
^ 11 April 2012
^ Шмыгля 2009
^ Малинов 2013, from time 07:47
^ IRFWP 2003
^ Шмыгля 2012
^ IRFWP 2013: «Reverend Junsei Terasawa became a Buddhist monk at a young age, and thereafter spent six years in India intensively studying and practicing Buddhism, and involving himself in the social reform movement to remove communal and caste division conflicts. Later, he contributed to the anti-nuclear peace marches and demonstrations throughout Europe and established the two Peace Pagodas in England. In India, he initiated the Rajgir Symposium on the Victory of Law over the nuclear menace, producing the visionary “New Delhi Declaration to build a Nuclear-free Non-violent World.” He initiated both Peace Camps on the Iraq-Saudi border in a bid to avert the Gulf War, and more recently, the 3-month Pakistan-India Prayer March for Peace. He also initiated the Inter-Faith Peace Mission to Chechnya with support of of Jordan and Mikhail Gorbachev. He invested greatly in an effort to resolve the Iraqi crisis through his initiation of the International Inter-Religious Peace Mission to Iraq. He led the Buddhist Delegation to Baghdad with their Appeal to President Sadam Hussein, President G.W. Bush, and other world leaders.»
^ РІСУ 2014
^ Свобода 31.03.2014: «In general the peace walk shell be held in thirteen cities in Ukraine and will last 15 days (Ukrainian: Загалом хода миру відбудеться ще у тринадцяти містах України і триватиме 15 днів)»
^ Телеграф 31.03.2014: «The initiator of peace walk is Junsey Terasawa, a Japanese Buddhist monk-peacemaker and teacher of monastic order "Nippondzan Myohodzi" (Russian: Инициатором шествия мира является Дзюнсей Терасава, японский буддийский монах-миротворец и учитель монашеского ордена “Ниппондзан Мйоходзи”)»

References[]

Credo.Ru, Портал (14 February 2012). "Reportage: Buddha in aid of awakening Russia? Unexpected return Junsei Terasava" (in Russian). Retrieved 2013-10-14.
Credo.Ru, Портал (11 April 2012). "Buddhist teacher and pacifist from Japan Junsei Terasawa again became persona non grata in Russia" (in Russian). Retrieved 2013-10-14.
IRFWP (2 September 2003). "Reverend Junsei Terasawa. A biographical profile" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-10-10.
IRFWP (2013). "About. Reverend Junsei Terasawa". Retrieved 2013-10-10.
Малинов, Денис (2013-05-24). "Caucas Portrait Terasawa Junsey —- "One who came out the Home"" (in Russian and English). Retrieved 2013-10-10.
Мёходзи, Ниппондзан (2006). "Information about the order Nipponzan Myōhōji" (in Russian). Retrieved 2013-10-10.
РІСУ (21 February 2014). "Buddhist Monk: "Maybutnie za Maydanom"" (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 2014-02-21.
Свобода, Радіо (2014-03-30). "Japanese Monk Peacemaker Organizes Peace Walk in Ukraine (video at 30.03.2014)" (in Ukrainian, English, and Russian). Retrieved 2016-01-02.
Телеграф (2014-03-31). "Community of Buddhists Organized in Ukraine Peace Procession" (in Russian). Retrieved 2014-03-31.
Шмыгля, Алексей (2009). "Bodhisattvas of Pamir is destined to save humanity.. Lecture Ven Terasawa-Sensei September 11, 2009, Kyrgyz Republic, the Tien-Shan Place of.Way" (in Russian). Retrieved 2013-10-29.
Шмыгля, Алексей (2012). "Terasawa Junsei" (in Russian). Retrieved 2013-10-10.

Further materials[]

KPP, Group. "Kushan Peace Promotion". Retrieved 2013-10-10.
Shvedovski, Felix (2011). "Bodhisattva Live Mandala.mp4". Retrieved 2013-10-10.
Spencer, Metta (Jul–Sep 2001). "That Peace Monk: Junsei Terasawa". Peace Magazine. 17 (3): 16. ISSN 0826-9521. Retrieved 20 October 2013.
Terasawa, Junsei (8 January 2006). "See this man urgent message from Junsei Terasawa, Buddhist monk from Japan, on no-end fasting of Said-Emin Ibragimov" (PDF). Retrieved 20 October 2013.
Tribinevicius, Medeine (2011). "Buddhism: Not The Ends of The Earth". Retrieved 2013-10-11.
ПЧР (03/01/2007). "The Сase of Junsei Terasawa" (in Russian). Retrieved 20 October 2013. Check date values in: |year= (help)
Тэрасава, Дзюнсэй (1997). To Dispel Darkness in Alive Beings (in Russian). Donetsk, Ukraine: Mahasangha. p. 224.
Тэрасава, Дзюнсэй (2001). In the New Century without Wars and Violence (in Russian). Donetsk, Ukraine: Mahasangha Nipponzan Myōhōji. p. 512.
Тэрасава, Дзюнсэй (2006). Global Awakening (PDF) (in Russian). Donetsk, Ukraine: Mahasangha Nipponzan Myōhōji. p. 447. ISBN 966-8292-87-1.

[1] Мёходзи 2006: «Terasawa-sensei has served as a monk for 39 years: 6 years in India, 15 in Europe and 16 years — in the former Soviet Union. (Russian: Тэрасава-сэнсэй имеет 39-летний опыт монашеской практики: 6 лет в Индии, 15 лет в Европе и уже 16 лет — в бывшем Советском Союзе. Сейчас он обучает небольшую группу монахов из России, Украины, Казахстана, а также Китая. С 2000 года въезд в Россию ему закрыт из-за выступлений против войны в Чечне.)»

[2] Credo.Ru 14 February 2012

[3] 11 April 2012

[4] Шмыгля 2009

[5] Малинов 2013, from time 07:47

[6] IRFWP 2003

[7] Шмыгля 2012

[8] IRFWP 2013: «Reverend Junsei Terasawa became a Buddhist monk at a young age, and thereafter spent six years in India intensively studying and practicing Buddhism, and involving himself in the social reform movement to remove communal and caste division conflicts. Later, he contributed to the anti-nuclear peace marches and demonstrations throughout Europe and established the two Peace Pagodas in England. In India, he initiated the Rajgir Symposium on the Victory of Law over the nuclear menace, producing the visionary “New Delhi Declaration to build a Nuclear-free Non-violent World.” He initiated both Peace Camps on the Iraq-Saudi border in a bid to avert the Gulf War, and more recently, the 3-month Pakistan-India Prayer March for Peace. He also initiated the Inter-Faith Peace Mission to Chechnya with support of of Jordan and Mikhail Gorbachev. He invested greatly in an effort to resolve the Iraqi crisis through his initiation of the International Inter-Religious Peace Mission to Iraq. He led the Buddhist Delegation to Baghdad with their Appeal to President Sadam Hussein, President G.W. Bush, and other world leaders.»

[9] РІСУ 2014

[10] Свобода 31.03.2014: «In general the peace walk shell be held in thirteen cities in Ukraine and will last 15 days (Ukrainian: Загалом хода миру відбудеться ще у тринадцяти містах України і триватиме 15 днів)»

[11] Телеграф 31.03.2014: «The initiator of peace walk is Junsey Terasawa, a Japanese Buddhist monk-peacemaker and teacher of monastic order "Nippondzan Myohodzi" (Russian: Инициатором шествия мира является Дзюнсей Терасава, японский буддийский монах-миротворец и учитель монашеского ордена “Ниппондзан Мйоходзи”)»

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