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Harvard University — “American Sutra: Buddhism and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII"

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Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies Japan Forum Lecture Series. “American Sutra: Buddhism and the Incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII” lecture with introduction by Helen Hardacre, Harvard Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society and discussants Diana L. Eck (Harvard Professor of Comparative Religions and Indian Studies) and Stephen Prothero (C. Allyn and Elizabeth V. Russell Professor of Religion in America, Boston University). Reception and book sales/signing will follow.

This will take place at Belfer Case Study Room S020, Japan Friends of Harvard Concourse, CGIS South Building.

Presented by the Harvard Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies; co-sponsored by the New England Japanese American Citizens League, Harvard Buddhist Studies Forum, Harvard Divinity School Center for the Study of World Religions, Harvard Pluralism Project, and the Harvard Program on U.S.-Japan Relations.

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