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My Father
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David
Armitage MacGill
(Dacjo)
1915 - 1997 |
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My father, Dacjo was born
in Dunfirmline, Scotland and came to live in new Zealand at
the
age of five. He went to the University of New Zealand and gained a
B.Sc. He married my mother, Frances Emily Hamon just after the war.
Dacjo worked in civil aviation and later became a Patent Examiner. My
mother was a Theosophist. It was through reading in the Theosophist
library in Wellington that Dacjo found a book on Buddhism and became a
Theravada Buddhist.
Dacjo's
other passion which remained with him all his
life
was Esperanto, the International Language. The flag above is the
Esperanto flag and the creator of Esperanto, Ludovic Zamenhof.
My parents had three children, my brother Stefan, my
sister Rowena and me. We all speak Esperanto. Our mother died in 1962.
Dacjo eventually retired to a Buddhist monastery near Kyoto in Japan,
called Kyoto Syudoin, where he stayed for seventeen years. After that
he shifted back to Dunedin, New Zealand where we bought a house and I
cared for him until a car accident in 1997. He died from his injuries
four days after the accident.
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Dacjo
meets the Dalai Lama with me behind
in Dunedin in
1992
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