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Peace Pagoda
Paul WalshMountaintop shrine to world peace with great views over the city of Hiroshima and out to the islands of the Inland Sea.
Hiroshima Peace Pagoda
The Peace Pagoda, or busshari-tō as it it called in Japanese, was built at the instigation of a Bhuddhist monk named Nichidatsu Fujii. Fuji was the founder of the Nipponzan Myōhōji sect of Nichiren Bhuddhism and was inspired to devote his life to promoting non-violence after a meeting with Mahatma Gandhi. His Peace Pagodas in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first of some 80 “shrines to world peace” that can now be found around the world.
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1 Hikarigaoka, Higashi Ward, Hiroshima, 732-0051, Japan (Map) (Directions)Hours
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