Marion Pape “A Personal Japanese Pilgrimage”
Marion Pape will talk about her 2016 pilgrimage to Japan with two Zen Buddhist priests from Vancouver’s Mountain Rain Zen Sangha to explore the origins of North American Soto Zen in Japan. In this process, Marion recognized that the focus of travel can be different on a pilgrimage. Instead of looking outside, we are noticing what is happening inside ourselves. Why was she really going on this trip and what did she discover? She will talk about how her Pilgrimage became two journeys, the place she visited and the other one inside her heart and mind.
Marion Pape is President of First Unitarian Church of Victoria having joined in 2012 when she moved to Victoria from Salt Spring Island. She was a member of the Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax, First Unitarian Church of Ottawa and was an original member of the Salt Spring Unitarian Fellowship. She became a Buddhist on Salt Spring Island in 2014, taking her vows on the Buddhist precepts as a way of life.
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