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Japanese monk gets down with the beat for Buddhism

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Toshi Maeda ("Reuters ," February 8, 2010)
Tokyo, Japan - He raps. He chants. And this month, Japan’s famed hip-hop loving monk, better known as MC Happiness, will tap dance on stage, in the name of Buddhism.

Kansho Tagai heads the 400-year-old Kyoouji Temple in central Tokyo, offering softly chanted prayers throughout the day amid traditional bell chimes and wafts of incense.




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