法華取要抄
Choosing the Heart of the Lotus Sutra
The Essentials of the Lotus Sutra
文永十一年五月二十四日 五十三歳御作
May 24, 1274 (Age:53)
問うて云く、如来滅後二千余年・竜樹・天親・天台・伝教の残したまえる所の秘法は何物ぞや、
Question: In these two thousand and more years since the passing of the Buddha, what are these “secret Laws” that were left unrevealed by Nāgārjuna, Vasubandhu, T’ien-t’ai, and Dengyō?
Question: What are the secret Laws that Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Tiantai, and Dengyō could not propagate during the two-thousand-odd years after Shakyamuni Buddha’s passing?
答えて云く、本門の本尊と戒壇と題目の五字となり
Answer: They are the object of devotion of the essential teaching, the sanctuary of the essential teaching, and the five characters of the daimoku of the essential teaching.
Answer: They are the True Object of Worship of the Essential Teaching, the High Sanctuary of the EssentialTeaching, and the five characters of the Daimoku of the Essential Teaching.
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