Published On:Tuesday 9 September 2014
Posted by Celebrate Life Style information Blog
Learnt values of cleanliness from Buddhism: Kyoto Mayor
Kyoto, Japan -- When Kyoto’s Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that Japan’s values of cleanliness have come from Buddhism which was born in India, a candid PM lamented “we seem to have forgotten those values of Buddhism”. Zen temple Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto. City Mayor Daisaku Kadokawa says Japanese values of cleanliness came from Buddhism.
This exchange took place when Kadokawa gave a presentation to Modi on Sunday on how Kyoto made the transition from an old historic city to a modern and clean city of the 21st century, while keeping the old parts alive. See at more: http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=44,12010,0,0,1,0#.VA8b6GPdtio
This exchange took place when Kadokawa gave a presentation to Modi on Sunday on how Kyoto made the transition from an old historic city to a modern and clean city of the 21st century, while keeping the old parts alive. See at more: http://buddhistchannel.tv/index.php?id=44,12010,0,0,1,0#.VA8b6GPdtio
