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Inter-religious understanding does not come from just one
conference or one ritual event. It comes from personal
relationships lasting over years or decades with followers
of many faiths.
Over the years Oomoto representatives have hosted in
Kameoka and Ayabe - or visited in their home countries -
numerous persons involved in interfaith activities:
religious leaders, directors of cultural institutions
and museums, academics, artists, and writers. The faces
appearing on these two pages illustrate only a few of the
warm friendship which have developed over time. Oomoto
sees them as its "Community of Friends".
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Dr. Frederick Franck
Dr. Franck visited Oomoto in January 1975
and wrote a ground-breaking book about
Oomoto's arts activities,
An Encounter With Oomoto.
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Cardinal Sergio Pignedoli
Cardinal Pignedoli was Director of the Vatican
Secretariat for Non-Christians. His visit to
Oomoto in 1976 paved the way for an Oomoto
ritual to be performed at the Vatican in
October 1977.
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Sheikh El Azhar Ali Gad El Haq
H.E. Dr. Gad El Haq was Sheikh of El Azhar University,
the oldest and most prestigious Islamic university,
in Cairo, Egypt. The Sheikh El Azhar is ex officio
one of the leading authorities on Islamic doctrine.
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Dean Victor de Waal
Dean of Canterbury Cathedral, UK, Victor de Waal arranged
for the Noh performance at Canterbury, May 1980.
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Ven. Shocho Hagami
Abbot of Kozanji Temple and Presbyter of Tendai Buddhism,
Mt. Hiei, Kyoto, Abbot Hagami was a leading figure in the
Japanese religious world, instrumental in arranging the
Mt. Sinai ceremony with President Sadat of Egypt in 1979,
the WOREC Conference of 1981, and many other interfaith
events.
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Prof. Zwi Werblowsky
Professor of Comparative Religion, Hebrew University,
Jerusalem.
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Ven. Doboom Tulku
Director, Cultural Centre of His Holiness
the Dalai Lama, New Delhi, India.
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David Kidd
Art collector and author living in Kyoto,
David Kidd was founder and first director
of the Oomoto School of Traditional Japanese Arts.
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Prof. Vadime Elisseeff
Director of the Musée Cernuschi in Paris,
he arranged for the Oomoto Arts Exhibition of 1972-75.
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