Organ meditations         Douglas O. Drake, Organist
	Words of Welcome and Reflection        Professor Barbara Ruch                 Director, Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies        Dr. George Rupp                 President, Columbia University        Ambassador Seiichiro Otsuka                 Consul General of Japan in New York         Reverend T. Kenjitsu Nakagaki                 Buddhist Council of New York
	Prayer         The Very Reverend James Parks Morton                 Director, Interfaith Center of New York
	The Life of Abbess Mugai Nyodai        High Priest Shunsho Manabe
	Nenko Hogo (Rinzai Zen Ritual of Offering Sacred Incense and Poetry to a Deceased Master)         Chief Abbott Keido Fukushima of Tofukuji Monastery and Acolytes         Burning of Precious Fragrant Wood         Obeisance to the Spirit of Abbess Mugai Nyodai         Words of Veneration (geju)
	Hannya Shingyo (The Heart Sutra)         Dr. Peter Haskel                 The First Zendo of America
	Kenka (Offering of Song) Two Songs by Abbess Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179)         Members of Collegium Musicum             Director: Eric Rice             Soloist: Margaret Bell
	Kenkyoku (Offering of Music) World Premier of "Mind Mirror: Nyodai's Dream" (1998)                 for shakuhachi, pipa and bass koto                 in honor of Mugai Nyodai Zenni Composed by Yuriko Hase Kojima         Ned Rothenberg (shakuhachi)         Min Xiao-Fen (pipa)         Masayo Ishigure (koto)
	Ritual Mass by Abbesses and Nuns         Chief Celebrant: Abbess Superior Shozui Rokujo         Convents represented:           Kyoto: Daishoji, Donkei'in, Hokyoji, Rinkyuji, Tokujo myoin           Nara: Chuguji           Osaka: Domyoji           Tokyo: Sankoin
	The Nuns' Mass           Ritual Offering of Flowers (kenka)         Ritual Offering of Arrowroot Tea and Green Tea (kucha)         Chief Celebrant: Abbess Superior Shozui Rokujo        Offering of Precious Incense        Invocation (keibyakumon)
	Circumambulation (gyodo), Chanting of the Kannon Sutra, and Ritual of Scattering Petals (sange)
	Poetic Offering to Abbess Mugai Nyodai         Poem by Daishoji Abbess, Kasanoin Jikun         Soloist: Eric Rice         On the altar in a frame was a waka poem offertory to Abbess Mugai Nyodai from the current Abbess of Daishoji.
	Offering of Incense (shoko)         Buddhist nuns and monks and more than 200 guests offered incense to Abbess Mugai Nyodai.

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