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81, Nichiren Erects the Grand Gohonzon of the Sanctuary of the fundamental Teachings. (1)

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81, Nichiren Erects the Grand Gohonzon of the Sanctuary of the fundamental Teachings. (1)_f0301354_23514842.jpg

 "On Persecution Befalling the Saint.” Genuine writing is owned by Nakayama Hokekyo-ji Temple.


Disciples of the white robe, carried a big camphor tree in the form of half log like the height of the person and put it before Nichiren. And a big writing brush was prepared. Nichiren foresaw that this day came, has prepared the large camphor tree for the erecting of the Gohonzon.

It is unknown how he supplied this board. However, it will be natural to think that Nichiren asked Munenaka Ikegami, the older brother of Ikegami brothers, for procurement. His father was the commissioner of buildings of the Kamakura Shogunate, Munenaka has been inheriting father's work. The letter of Nichiren who asked Munenaka for the construction of the priests' living quarters of the disciple has been handed down up till the present.

As for the reason why Nichiren chose a camphor tree as, a trunk is big, the inside it is dense, and it is superior in damp proofing and the durability, and thought that the material that can endure for ten thousand years of the Latter-Day of the Law. In addition, there might be the superior reason for an insecticide effect from the incense of camphor of the whole tree because a camphor is produced by distilling the branches and leaves of the camphor tree.

There was the residence of Munenaka in current Ikegami, Ota Ward, Tokyo Prefecture. The camphor tree is "the Tree of the Ward" of Ota Ward. In addition, it is said that Munenaka donated 69384 tsubos (approximately 230, 000 square meters, five times the area of Tokyo Dome) as matching with the number of characters of the Lotus Sutra, when Nichiren passed away. Naturally, it is thought that a camphor tree has been growing wild.

Nichiren has given the Gohonzon, written in a thick Japanese paper, of one relation or opportunity to the strong disciples and believers of the faiths individually until now.

He has given a strict order about these Gohonzons as follows. "You must not hand it over to others than your child. Must not show it if it is not a strong person of the faiths". 'Letter to Abutsubo'.

Nichiren received the persecution of Atsuhara, felt the prosperity of the Law of Buddha of the populace and decided that now is the time to erect the grand Gohonzon to all living beings of the whole world.

At the time of October 12 of the second year in the Koan Era (1279), all believers put hands together and have begun to chant the title solemnly.

After Nichiren wrote and showed mandala of the ten worlds to the surface which was whittled of the half log, Nippo of the disciple traced the written words of Nichiren exactly and carved. When it finished carving, Nichiren wrote characters with a Sumi ink to a carving trace again. It corresponded as follows to his words; "I, Nichiren, with Sumi ink, have infused my soul. Believe. The will of Buddha is the Lotus Sutra, but the soul of Nichiren is nothing other than Nam-myoho-renge-kyo." 'Letter to kyo'o'.

Furthermore, in accordance with the ceremony of the seeing the treasure tower in the air of the 11th chapter of the Lotus Sutra, Nichiren lined up Nam Sakyamuni Buddha, Nam Nyorai Taho, four Bodhisattvas of emerging from the ground, Nam Jogyo, Nam Muhengyo, Nam Jyogyo, Nam Anryugyo in the top. And he placed the voice-hearer and all Heaven behind them, and he arranged the four Heavens who protect the Law of Buddha such as the Heaven of great Zikoku, also he expressed both the King Aizen to the left and the King Fudomyo to the right, between the four Heavens, in Sanskrit as a symbol that the origin of Buddhism was India. These people embody in the ten world realms of living beings. Nichiren declared in the lower right of the Gohonzon, "This is the grand mandala which was unprecedented after passing away of Buddha among more than 2230 year interval in the whole world". Finally, he wrote down large Nam-myoho-renge-kyo to the center, and Nichiren signature right below it, and finished it.

The grand Gohonzon, which Nichiren wrote down was painted with black lacquer, and the characters he wrote were finished in gold afterwards by the craftsman of the same faiths last. It is thought that this grand Gohonzon was performed all by the hand of Nichiren's disciples and believers, from the choice of tree and the felling of the camphor tree to the last finish.

When Gohonzon of the board was completed, Nippo asked Nichiren for the permission, and it is said that he made the holy statue of Nichiren, approximately 3 inches, with the remaining board of the camphor tree which became the grand Gohonzon. Disciple Nippo was distributed hair from Nichiren and made a thin Sumi ink, and it is said that he dyed it with a Sumi to this holy statue. This holy statue is being placed in the Fuji Daisekiji temple now.

Nichiren declared the real Buddhism establishment at 32 years old and accomplished the purpose of his advent at 59 years old 27 years later.

Nichiren writes down this day by "On Persecution Befalling to the Saint" as follows.

“In Nagasa District of Awa country, there is a village called Tojo that is now a district. Here is the holy storehouse which was once the second in Japan, now is the highest rank. It was founded by Minamoto-no Yoritomo of the Right Side General, and supplies food for the shrine of the God of the sun. In the private Buddha statue hall inside the various halls which is called the Seichoji temple in this district, I first spoke about this doctrine towards the south at noon on the twenty-eight day of April in the fifth year of Kencho (1253). Twenty-seven years have passed since then and it is currently the second year of Kō'an (1279). Shakyamuni Buddha was forty-odd years, the Great Teacher Tiantai was thirty-odd years, the Great Teacher Dengyou was twenty-odd years, they had needed these years to accomplish the purpose of their advents.

I have spoken repeatedly of the great persecutions they suffered during those years. It has taken twenty-seven years for me. Great persecutions during those years are what everybody knows it.”

            To be continued to (2)


Third volume table of contents

(Note)

Holy storehouse.

The place that supplies food of the land to the Imperial Family, a noble and Shrine. It came to mean land to give to a gift later. According to the third volume of the Mirror of the East, there was the sacred storehouse where Yoritomo Minamoto donated it to the Great Ise Shrine in 1184, at a Tojo village of the birthplace of Nichiren in Awa Province (South Chiba)



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