42 Conversation, the first Japanese philosophical treatise. These books were widely read at the time and are still held in high regard today. In September 1884 Enryō became a fourth-year student at the uni-versity. He was twenty-six years old. He had to think about his future after graduation. One day his beloved previous teacher ISHIGURO Tadanori, who had become a senior officer of the army medical ser-vice, told him the following. special selection to employ you and he assented. What say you? Enryō replied, I am very grateful that you would think of me, but since I have been studying at the university as a sponsored student of been my daily vow that in the future I will pour all of my energy into doing my best for the people of the world through religion and educational activities… Thus, Enryō turned down Ishiguro’s offer of a job at the Ministry of Education. At the time the final choice for elite students like him was to become a professor or a minister. Enryō declined because entering the Ministry would mean studying abroad and eventually be-At a Crossroads after Graduation You have good grades so I talked to Minister of Education Mori Arinori. I recommended to him that the Ministry make a Honganji I am not able to take a government position. It has
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