After regular Sunday Morning practice, you are invited to make Jizo prayer flags and images to honour and remember the indigenous children who died in residential schools, and those who survived.

Jizo bodhisattva is beloved in Japanese culture as the protector of women, children and travelleres, particularly children who have died. Jizo is often depicted as a childlike image wearing a red bib (or rakusu) and a red cap/toque.

For Orange Shirt Day we are making prayer flags of Jizo images with orange bibs/rakusu. Materials will be available in the zendo entry hall. Kakuko Kaye has kindly prepared the flags for us so that they can displayed like Tibetan prayer flags.

We will hang the Jizo images in the zendo entry hall for Orange Shirt Day and we will also offer them to our upstairs neighbours at Aboriginal Mothers Society.

You are also encouraged to join in one of the various community events for Orange Shirt Day, as you reflect on the history and legacy of colonization, and the deep commitment to healing that indigenous communities are asking of themselves and all inhabitants of this precious land.