Class #3 Buddhism
Question 1. How is your daily life affected by buddhism? What do you do and why do you do it?

There are many events about buddhism in Japan. For example, ohakamairi. It is one of the old traditional events in Japan. All Japanese visit their graves to respect their ancestors in obon or higan. In addition, we always eat toshikoshi-soba on December 31th every year. It is very auspicious food. Because the noddle is very long. We wish to live long from now on like the noddle of soba. That is why we eat soba. Toshikoshi-soba is a symbol of long life in our country.
Finally, I introduced some Japanese traditional cusutom about Buddhism. I dont know about Buddhism so much, I think that some Japanese don't interested in buddhism at all. But in this time, I found that the buddhism is affected in various ways in our daily life.

Question 2: The next class will be about Islam. Check the newspapers for the next 2 weeks and find articles about Islam. How are they talked about? Do you feel negative or positive about Islam because of these articles?

03/14 from Izza

Boarding has been refused by the Islam invocation. Religious discrimination and the U.S. Co. bringing a case
As for considering the prayer of Islam, and "Suspicious activity" the refusal of boarding to the airplane, it was assumed that it undertook religious discrimination, and Arab-American person's six leaders of Islam caused the appeal to request compensation for damages etc. from U.S. airline US air WAIS in a federal district court in Minnesota state on the 13th. Boarding was refused though abnormality was not found by the security inspection, and it was restrained to the police temporarily according to the petition though six people planned starting after it attended the conference on the leader of North America Islam held in this state Minneapolis on one's way back from the airport on this ground with the US air WAIS machine last November. It is insisted that boarding be refused to the petition because it was informed, "Suspicious activity" other passengers that four of six had lifted up the prayer of Islam in front of the boarding gate. The US air WAIS : according to Reuter. ｢Judgment after the entire behavior of them is seen. The agreement of a local judicial authorities is obtained. ｣It objects.

I think that we should learn the religion and the custom of a different more country. Also people in other countries need to know them. because it is a matter of course for us, but for other people not so. I think if we have knowledge, such a fight can be avoided. Actually, it is difficult to learn religion of other countries without knowing the religion of the home country. But if we receive others with wider view and sympathy,we will be able to narrow each other's distance than now.

Article http://www.iza.ne.jp/news/newsarticle/world/worldnews/43292/