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Nichiren Shoshu 101

from Bladfold by David Nixon and Daniel Spils

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Nichiren Buddhism: a sect of Buddhism started by a Japanese monk named Nichiren. Nichiren believed that the Lotus Sutra was the most sacred and important of the Buddha’s teachings, and the very title of the Lotus Sutra in Japanese is itself a very powerful mantra, and those who chant this mantra will incur benefits and be brought closer to their innate Buddha nature, and thus to enlightenment.
Goka Gakkai: a laymen’s organization devoted to the study of Nichiren Buddhism. Started in 1930, its president since 1960 is a man named Daisaku Ikeda. Soka Gakkai / Nichiren Buddhism came to the US in the 1950’s, brought by the Japanese wives of G.I. servicemen from WWII.
The followers of Nichiren Buddhism do not pray to a statue of Buddha but to a gohonzon – a scroll inscribed with the sacred mantra. Members who have received their gohonzon typically keep it in a altar called a butsudan. Most gohonzon scrolls are created by some kind of printing process. But on very very very rare occasions a member may be granted a Joju gohonzon – a very powerful gohonzon that is hand painted by a priest in the temple in Japan.
“Namai-wa!”
“Bradford Nixon.”
“Bladfold?”
“Hai!”
Soka Gakkai literally translates to “value creation society,” but a perhaps a better translation would be something like, “Society for the Promotion of Positive Change in the World.” One of their primary goals has been “kosen rufu” – world peace.

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from Bladfold, released September 7, 1942

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