Terasawa Junsei

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.

[1][2][3] Junsei Terasawa was born on September 15, 1950, into a poor family in the small town of Hakui, Ishikawa on Noto Peninsula, Japan.

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 homelessness to go to Tokyo and join a unique peacemaking Nipponzan Myōhōji activity, led by its founder teacher Nichidatsu Fujii.

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.

[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.

Peace Pagoda with coordinates 52°03′28″N 0°43′32″W  /  52.057697°N 0.725436°W  / 52.057697; -0.725436  ( Milton Keynes Peace Pagoda ) , 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  / 51.482018; -0.159025  ( London Peace Pagoda ) ( 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.