That's the image of funeral Buddhism: that it doesn't meet people's spiritual needs. In Islam or Christianity, they hold sermons on spiritual matters. But in Japan nowadays, very few Buddhist priests do that.
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Ryoko Mori, the chief priest at the 700-year-old Zuikoji Temple in northern Japan, responding to statistics that show a decline in Buddhism in Japan. (New York Times)
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