The Morning and Evening Practice of Gongyo and the SGI Format Based on Nichiren’s Writings Those who put into practice even a phrase or a verse of this sutra are certain to attain the way, for it is the teaching related to them. (WND-1, 80) When we stop to consider it, we find that the sutra itself says, concerning how much or how little of it is to…
Shin Yatomi SGI-USA Study Department Leader One word sometimes makes a world of difference. When the practitioners of Mahayana Buddhism—the popular, altruistic Buddhist movements that arose around the first century of the Common Era partly in reaction to the ascetic traditions of earlier Buddhism—added the word nature to the word buddha, this newly coined term caused a radical transformation of how Buddhism was viewed and practiced, especially in East…
Nissei –17th High Priest, Nichiren Shoshu. This is the first in a series of articles on former high priests of Nichiren Shoshu and how they contributed, or hindered, the spread of Nichiren’s Buddhism. Nissei is known for two major doctrinal errors. One was the establishment of a statue of Shakyamuni as an object of devotion, and the other was mandating the recitation of all twenty-eight chapters of the Lotus…