{"id":230,"date":"2021-02-15T12:06:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T03:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/?p=230"},"modified":"2021-02-15T12:31:11","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T03:31:11","slug":"grand-ceremony-online-celebration-commemorates-the-800th-anniversary-of-nichiren-shonins-birth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/blog\/2021\/02\/15\/grand-ceremony-online-celebration-commemorates-the-800th-anniversary-of-nichiren-shonins-birth\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Ceremony online celebration commemorating the 800th Anniversary of Nichiren Shonin&#8217;s birth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4511-1000x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4511-1000x667.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4511-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4511-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4511-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMG_4511.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>February 16, 2020 marks the 800th anniversary of our founder Nichiren Shonin&#8217;s birth. Nichiren Shu is celebrating this special day with an online 800th Anniversary Grand Ceremony at Kominatosan Tanjoji Temple. Online participation is free and open to all. Please come and share this once-in-every-50-year event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Grand Ceremony will take place Tuesday, February 16 starting at 11:00 am Japan Standard Time (JST). Please use any of the following URL links to participate:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Zoom URL<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/7885861093\">https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/7885861093<\/a><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/zoom.us\/download#client_4meeting\">Zoom support and download center<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>YouTube URL<\/strong>: <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/TjT0ljY622s\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/TjT0ljY622s<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Please check your network access and be online by 10:30 am JST<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Schedule<\/strong><br> 10:30 am: First Bell (Preparation)<br>10:40 am Second Bell (Congregation Entrance)<br>10:50 am Drum (Priest Entrance)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"710\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/remote-1000x710.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"237\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/?attachment_id=237\" class=\"wp-image-237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/remote-1000x710.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/remote-400x284.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/remote-800x568.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/remote-768x545.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/remote.jpg 1278w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"657\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/display-1000x657.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"238\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/?attachment_id=238\" class=\"wp-image-238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/display-1000x657.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/display-400x263.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/display-800x526.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/display-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/display.jpg 1267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 16, 2020 marks the 800th anniversary of our founder Nichiren Shonin&#8217;s birth. Nichiren Shu is celebrating this special day with an online 800th Anniversary Grand Ceremony at Kominatosan Tanjoji Temple. Online participation is free and open to all. Please come and share this once-in-every-50-year event. The Grand Ceremony will take place Tuesday, February 16 starting at 11:00 am Japan Standard Time (JST). Please use any of the following URL links to participate: Zoom URL: https:\/\/zoom.us\/j\/7885861093 Zoom support and download center YouTube URL: https:\/\/youtu.be\/TjT0ljY622s Please check your network access and be online by 10:30 am JST Schedule 10:30 am: First Bell (Preparation)10:40 am Second Bell (Congregation Entrance)10:50 am Drum (Priest Entrance)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,3],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-announcement","category-event"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nichiren.or.jp\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}