ZEN STUDENTS: The Pacific Buddhist Academy, the only Shin Buddhist college preparatory school in the country, educates 60 students who must agree to take judo, kendo and taiko to enroll. Here, ninth-grade boys bow to Pieper Toyama, kendo master and head of the school.
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