BUDDHIST SERMON IN ENGLISH

Since Koyasan was registered as the World Heritage, more and more foreign tourists have visited Koyasan. In the auditorium room at KONGOBUJI, the head temple of Koyasan Shingon Buddhism, visitors can be welcome with Japanese table green tea and a special rice cracker which can be bought only at KONGOBUJI. Also visitors are always looking forward to listen to a kind of sermon by priest. Most of the priests come from Shingon branch temples all the way from all over Japan. Mostly the sermon is given in Japanese but sometimes you may see one who tries to speak in English as well. Here is one, the priest, SHUKEN SATO from Hiroshima. His English is not so fluent like native speakers but he talk each words carefully and politely so that foreigner can understand their teaching easily. He is a good singer as well and introduce a kind of Buddhist rhyme with beautiful melody. You should be lucky if you meet the priest like him.
Today I was guiding some people from SAWADEE TOUR.
It was a Very hot day but the temperature in Koyasan is about 10 degrees Celcius cooler than Osaka, for example. It is hot enough in the sun but once you get in the shade or inside of the temple, you can feel the cool breeze. And in the morning and in the evening, you find that you don't need air conditioner at all. (Actually, recently some temples started to equip the air conditioner but most of them don't have one and I don't thing they are needed.)