A few blocks from our apartment building, between 105th street and 106th street on inner Riverside Drive, there is a statue of the Buddhist teacher Shinran Shonin located at the New York Buddhist Church. It's always a great surprise to walk by the statue. It is beautiful in and of itself, but it carries even greater significance because it survived the atomic bomb at Hiroshima, having been 2.5 kilometers away from the center of the attack. According to the plaque that lies below the statue, it was brought to New York in 1955 'to be a testimonial to the atomic bomb devastation and a symbol of lasting hope for world peace'.
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