Buddhism in Ghana: The Anthony "Amp" Elmore Story Birth of the "Proud Black Buddhist Website"
Click on the Above picture to see video of "The First All African Home in America." This is what Buddhism teach; "What you are you become more. I was already "Black;" however when I went to Ghana via my Buddhist practice I became "Blacker." Like the "Indigo."Most visualize the Buddhist faith as some "Asian on a mountain meditating." In 1998 Anthony "Amp" Elmore went to the opening of the 1st Nichiren Shoshu Temple in Africa in the West African Country of Ghana. Elmore express his Buddhist faith via manifesting pride in his "African Heritage." Elmore notes that it is not meditation that he express, instead he express "manifestation" of his Buddha nature making his African heritage inclusive of his Buddhist faith. See in the video Buddhist altar, the doors his attire is made in Ghana. Elmore made Tuxedo in Ghana for President Obama. President Obama sent Elmore a thank you note tuxedo with be placed in the new Barack Obama Presidential Library. Ghana not only changed the life of Anthony "Amp" Elmore, thanks to Ghana we have the birth of the "Proud Black Buddhist Website
On February 21, 1998 Nichiren Shoshu open its 1st Temple in the West African Country of Ghana. I was the "Official Videographer." I captured for history the spirit of what happen in Ghana.The image of the right shows a website I created about Ghana Buddhism starting in 1998. The two images below how I went to Ghana and created fashions and furnishing that changed my life in America.
