Turned this year’s Sacramento Nichiren Buddhist Church’s Tsuito-e service and New Year Party into a family affair. The Tsuito-e service is a memorial service for deceased members marking an everlasting membership in a community of believers. This is followed with the New Year Party put on by the Fujinkai (women’s group). The luncheon acts as a Fujinkai fund-raiser and as an opportunity to thank those who helped out in the various church activities during the previous year.

This was apparently the first time my wife attended the luncheon and certainly the first time my son and his girlfriend attended. Perhaps we can make this into a family tradition.

Ven. Kenjo Igarashi used the opportunity of the large crowd at the service to offer a quick overview of Ichinen Sanzen, a shorter version of the lecture he gave last year on The Logic of 3000 Realms.