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On Sunday I completed my mad dash up the West Coast by showing up to Sunday Dharma Service at the Temple that my grandma used to attend decades ago. I couldn't believe how welcoming the sangha was to sending me the msg that they didn't know me, but they knew who I was. I even stayed after for taiko.

There was quite a reaction to mentioning my grandma. When service ended, a man w/access to the temple archives pulled me aside into a side office, ran a 5min search & procured a card with the declaration of her homyo (Buddhist name) on one side, and her eitaikyo death notice from 2001 on the other.