“Unity of Learning and Practice” refers to the teaching of Dogen Zenji, the founder of Soto Zen Buddhism, based on his own religious experience. The phrase means that practice (the formation of personality) and learning (the pursuit of truth) are not two different things but exist in unity.

Each of us owes our lives to our mutual interdependence with all other beings.In recognition of this debt and in order to repay it, we are obliged to devote ourselves to society.In light of this, AGU bases its education on a profound sense of gratitude towards the whole world.