NANJŌ Bunyu. Nanjō had been sent abroad by Higashi Honganji to 45 and strive for success in our individual fields. We will work our hardest to develop culture and civilization in our society and devote ourselves to serving the nation. our respective fields that we who have graduated from univer-sity and earned the title of bachelor fulfill our noblesse oblige. I also believe this is how we attempt to repay the kindness of those [parents and teachers] who have supported us through to graduation. Higashi Honganji, who had dispatched Enryō to study in Tokyo, had not decided on a policy for responding to him and the prestigious role he had played. Attending the degree conferral ceremony was one study with Max MULLER, a scholar of religion at Oxford University in England. He had returned to Japan with a master’s degree after compiling the Nanjo Catalogue of Buddhist scriptures. He had become a guarantor for Enryō during his time at university. Nanjō attended the ceremony wearing a deep crimson graduation robe, which is said to have attracted a great deal of attention. Once the ceremony was over he took it upon himself to go straight to the leaders of Honganji and offer his advice. Inoue has now graduated. He is the first from any school of quickly plot out some advanced path for him. If not he will run off elsewhere. I believe that it is only when we demonstrate our abilities in Buddhism to graduate from university. Higashi Honganji must
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