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2020年 09月 13日

106 Last Religious Precepts of Nikko (1)

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Mount Fuji is watching from Fujinomiya city


Nikko leaves a will one month before death.

 It is the precepts to future disciples. There are 26 articles in all. Anything about this 26 articles is full with adoration to Nichiren who was the former teacher. All these addressed it to followers of future Nichiren.

There's the essence of the Nichiren Buddhism here. Nikko faithfully and constantly served in Izu exile and Sado Island, and strove for propagation in Kai country when Nichiren set up the thatched hut in Mount Minobu. It was as if obeyed the form of the shadow of Nichiren. That's why Nikko was able to leave these.

It is said that Buddha had ten great disciples. Shariputra who was said to be the leading figure in wisdom, and became the partner of the question and answer of the Temporary Means chapter in the second of the Lotus Sutra. Ananda of the leading figure in memorizing who have faithfully and constantly served the Buddha since 27 years old, and read sermon of the Buddha as "This is what I heard" aloud at the Buddhist scriptures concentration after passing away of Buddha. Furuna was praised as there was not the person to surpass in a sermon except Buddha.

In a sense, it seems that Nikko had the nature of all the ten great disciples of Buddha.

The disciples and believers of after ages respects this will even now as like a mirror. These are the golden rules of the ten thousand years of the latter day of the Law, and a door of the future Kosen-Rufu is opened by the disciples and believers maintaining these precepts.

Then I write down the whole sentence next.

In my opinion, the sun of the propagating in the Latter-Days of the Law lights up the darkness of slander the Law, and the marvelous wind of forever 'quantity of life' blows off the provisional teachings that the Buddha had attained enlightenment in Buddha Gaya (note). Oh, for example, like a fig which blooms only once in 3000 years, and the hole of the tree of a floating sandalwood in the vast ocean that it is rare to encounter the Law of Buddha, moreover, it may be that these metaphors have not still been enough. Fortunately, we were able to encounter this scripture sutra by destiny being thick deeply. Therefore, the reasons why I write a precept for the future disciples is, in other words, for receiving the golden words of Kosen-Rufu from the Daishonin.

1. The doctrine of Fuji should not be different in the least from the propagation which the Daishonin performed.

2. The doctrine of five people all differs from the propagation of the Daishonin.

3. There is a person considering each writings of Daishonin to be forgery and they will destroy and criticize our sect. You must not get close to him familiarly if such an evil priest appeared.

4. There is a person who makes a forgery, and calls it a writing of the Daishonin, and there is a person trained himself to equate the essential doctrine and the provisional. You must understand that he is a traitor within the walls.

5. Without criticizing against slander for the Buddha's Law, you must not spend time for a playing and an idle talk and must not like a non-Buddhist writing and an art.

6. You must forbid Shinto shrine worship of the believers. Why they visit the Buddhist temple and Shinto shrine that the evil spirit enters, in an attempt to take a look at, disobeying the Buddha's teachings and with a low talent? I'm really frustrated. This is not doctrine of me totally, but depends on the text of a scripture, the writings of the Daishonin, and so on.

7. About the disciple who has the talent, you do not allow to engage in the trivial routine duties of the teacher and must let him learn various teachings including writings of the Daishonin.

8. The populace who is unfamiliar in the study and who wants a fame and fortune does not deserve to be my successors.

9. As long as my believers in the future do not understand Lotus Sutra and pre-Lotus Sutra, they must shake off the affection from parents and teacher and they visit this temple and must learn it for moving away from suffering and attaining enlightenment.

10. You must not do a study of Tendai teaching without grasp of Daishonin's doctrine.

11. In our denomination, you dye sublime writing of the Daishonin into your soul and convey the supreme theory from a teacher, and should hear Tientai if there is spare time.

12. You must enjoy the discussion and lecture and not mix up public and private matters.

13. As long as the 'Kosen-Ruhu' does not yet be achieved, you must spread the Buddha's law, according your ability without sparing your life and body.

14. In the case of the practitioner like "One's body is insignificant, the Law is heavy", even if he was the Buddhist priest of a low-ranking, you must respect him by the reason of "Showing him the same respect you would do the Buddha."

15. Even if he is a junior, in the case of a Buddhist priest of propagating the Law, you should think him to be an old priest with virtue.

16. Even if he was a vulgar person, you should respect him if he is superior in wisdom than you and treat him as a teacher.

17. If he differed from Law of Buddha and established his own doctrine, even if he was the priest of the top of that time, you must not adopt this.

18. If it has a difference with the Buddha's Law, even if it was a resolution of large numbers of people, a top priest must defeat this.

19. Must not make the color of the robe black with a Sumi ink.

20. You must not wear a robe which seamed top and bottom(note).

21. Must not be the same seat with people of slandering Buddha's law. Should fear complicity.

22. Must not receive offerings from a person slandering the Buddha's law.

23. I permit the swords and sticks for the protection of the Buddha's law. But you will not have to hold it at the time of going out. In the case of the populace, should permit this perhaps.

24.Even if he is a young priest, he must not sit behind a high-rank believer.

25. My actions should also be sacred like the Daishonin. However, even if the chief abbot of that time or a priest to learn had a relationship with a woman by mistake, they should be treated as believers of this sect.

26. You must admire a practitioner who is "skillful the answer to a difficult question" as like Daishonin did.

The religious precepts are an outline like this. I put 26 items here for the protection of ten thousand years. A disciple who will learn this in the future should not have a doubt purposely. A person even to violate only one precept of these ones is not a successor of Nikko. Therefore, the precepts I have decided are as above.

On 13th day of the 1th month of the 3rd year of the Genko era (1333).

Nikko (signature)"   

      'The Last Religious Precepts of Nikko’


Continues to (2)


Third volume table of contents



(Note)

Buddha had attained enlightenment in Buddha Gaya.

It means Shakyamuni attained Buddhahood under the linden tree close on the Gaya Castle for the first time. Antonym of 'the eternal life span'. Gaya is called Buddha Gaya particularly and is the place where Shakyamuni accomplished Buddhahood.

The hollow of the tree floating.

A parable that it is rare that a person encounters Law of Buddha so that a tortoise of one eye looks for the hollow of the floating wood of sandalwood in a vast ocean.

“The orally conveyed the teachings say, hollow has two kinds of a small hollow and a big hollow. The small hollow is the teachings of 40 several years and the big hollow is the title, daimoku, of the Lotus Sutra. Now when Nichiren and his followers chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo aloud, they enter a large hollow of a floating holy tree. The one-eyed turtle stands for all living beings, and the floating tree of sandalwood is the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus Sutra has a floating tree having the large hollow in the vast sea of the sufferings of birth and death.” Chapter Twenty-seven: King of Wonderful Adornment.

A robe which seamed top and bottom.

Jikitotsu in Japanese. The robe which binds a jacket and an under robe directly. A kind of the priest's robe. The robe which lets it bind a jacket and an under robe directly. The jikitotsu is used in various sects. It is the canonical robe which has a fold towards below from a waist and is called "a Koromo" generally. Nichiren Shoshu forbids the wearing of the jikitotsu and they assume only coarse silk of the light gray clothes and wear it. See ‘About the Clothes of Three Kinds in Our Sect’



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