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Nichiren ( 日蓮 ) ( February 16, 1222 – October 13, 1282 ) was a Buddhist monk who lived during the Kamakura period ( 1185 – 1333 ) in Japan.
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Nichiren and 日蓮
Nichiren ( 日蓮 ) ( 1222 – 1282 ) was a Japanese Buddhist monk who, having studied Shakyamuni Buddha's teachings and the commentaries of the leading Buddhist scholars, believed that the Lotus Sutra was the ultimate teaching of Shakyamuni and that it was the one true teaching.
The schools of Nichiren Buddhism trace themselves to the monk Nichiren ( 日蓮: " Sun-Lotus ") and the proclamation of his teachings in 1253.
The echo takes on resounding depth in the work of the Buddhist monk Nichiren ( 日蓮, 1222 – 1282 ) whose Risshō Ankoku Ron ( 立正安國論: On Establishing Righteousness and Securing the Safety of the Nation: 1260 ), can be read as a brilliantly written foundational text for that vein of chiliastic populist nationalism which was to take the upper hand in the decade before 1945, in the heyday of Nihonshugi ( Japanism: 日本主義 ).
Nichiren and February
Nichiren was born on February 16, 1222 in the village of Kominato, Nagase District, Awa Province ( within present-day Chiba Prefecture ).
Nichiren was pardoned in February 1274 and returned to Kamakura in late March.
* February 16 – Nichiren, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism ( d. 1282 )
* February 7 – Nikko, Japanese priest, founder of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism ( b. 1246 )
Duffy married Carlyn Rosser, ten years his senior, in a Nichiren Buddhist ceremony conducted on February 15, 1974.
It is opened every February 16 for ceremonies to celebrate Nichiren ’ s birthday.
Nichiren and 16
Portrait of NichirenFrom the age of 16 until 32, Nichiren studied in numerous temples in Japan, especially Mt.
High Priest Nichinyo assumed the position on December 16, 2005, and is the 68th in a lineage Nichiren Shōshū traces back to Nichiren ( 1222 – 1282 ).
* July 16, 1260 ( Bun ' ō 1, 7th day of the 6th mongh ): Nichiren submitted a formal remonstrance to Hojo Tokiyori ; this was the " Treatise on Securing Peace in the Land through the Establishment of True Buddhism " ( Rissho Ankoku Ron )
The Nichiren Shu and Kempon Hokke schools of Nichiren Buddhism revere Shakyamuni of Chapter 16 of the Lotus Sutra as the Eternal Buddha.
Nichiren and 1222
* 1222 – Nichiren Daishonin, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism ( d. 1282 )
Nichiren Buddhism ( 日蓮系諸宗派: Nichiren-kei sho shūha ) is a branch of Mahāyāna Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th century Japanese Buddhist reformer Nichiren ( 1222 – 1282 ).
* 1282 – October 13 – Nichiren, founder of Nichiren Buddhism ( b. 1222 )
is a branch of Nichiren Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese monk Nichiren ( 1222 – 1282 ).
* 1222: Birth of Nichiren Daishonin ( 1222 – 1282 ), the Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism.
Nichiren and –
* 1536 – Buddhist monks from Kyoto, Japan's Enryaku-ji temple set fire to 21 Nichiren temples throughout in what will be known as the Tenbun Hokke Disturbance.
* 1253 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, propounds Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for the very first time and declares it to be the essence of Buddhism, in effect founding Nichiren Buddhism.
* 1279 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk founder of Nichiren Buddhism, inscribes the Dai-Gohonzon.
* 1253 – April 28 – Nichiren, a Japanese Buddhist monk, declares his intention to preach the Lotus Sutra and Nam Myoho Renge Kyo as the true Buddhism, essentially founding the branch of Buddhism now known as Nichiren Buddhism.
* November 15 – Nichimoku, Japanese priest, the 3rd high priest of Taisekiji temple and Nichiren Shoshu ( b. 1260 )
* 1271 – September 12 – According to the followers of Nichiren Buddhism, the sect's founder, Nichiren, reaches a turning point known as hosshaku kempon as he discards his identity as a mortal priest and begins to reveal himself as a reincarnation of the Buddha.
* 1274 – Nichiren enters a voluntary exile on Mount Minobu.
* 1279 – October 12 – The Dai-Gohonzon, the supreme object of veneration of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism, is inscribed by Nichiren.
Nichiren and October
On October 13, 1282, Nichiren died in the presence of many disciples and lay believers.
* Nichiren, Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism -( October 13 )
* October 12 – The Dai-Gohonzon, the supreme object of veneration of Nichiren Shōshū Buddhism, is inscribed by Nichiren.
The Dai-Gohonzon is a mandala believed by Nichiren Shoshu to have been inscribed by Nichiren Daishonin in Chinese and Sanskrit characters on October 12, 1279.
On October 8, 1282, Nikkō was one of six senior priests whom Nichiren designated to carry on his faith after his death.
According to Nichiren Shōshū doctrine, on October 13 Nichiren further designated Nikkō the chief priest of Kuon-ji, the temple at Mt.
Taiseki-ji is today the head temple of the Nichiren Shōshū school and, since its founding on October 12, 1290, has always been a major center of the Kōmon-ha ( 興門派, also called the 富士派: Fuji-ha ) branch of Nichiren Buddhism, as the schools stemming from Nikkō were traditionally known.
Nichiren and 13
In the view of Nichiren, a Buddhist reformer of 13 century Japan, statues and paintings were convenient for practice in the past period of Buddhist calendar.
Nichiren and 1282
Intolerance towards Nichiren Buddhism did not cease after Nichiren ’ s death ( 1282 ), and the most famous persecution was the violent attacks on Nichiren temples in the 16th century, Kyoto, Japan: “ Nichiren temples in Kyoto were attacked by the monks from Mt.
1282: Nichiren school begins to split into several schools.
This is based on a document dated the ninth lunar month of 1282 called the Nichiren ichigo guhō fuzoku-sho (" Document assigning all the teachings spread by Nichiren during his lifetime ").
Nichiren and was
It was followed closely in popularity by the Komeito ( Clean Government Party ), founded in 1964 as the political arm of the Soka Gakkai ( Value Creation Society ), until 1991 a lay organization affiliated with the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist sect.
In his own words about his birth, Nichiren stated that he was " the son of a chandala family who lived near the sea in Tojo in Awa Province, in the remote countryside of the eastern part of Japan.
This choice, as Nichiren himself explained, was rooted in passages from the Lotus Sutra.
After making his declaration, which all schools of Nichiren Buddhism regard as marking their foundation ( 立宗: risshū ), Nichiren began propagating his teachings in Kamakura, then Japan's de facto capital since it was where the shikken ( regent for the shogun ) and shogun lived and the government was established.
Among other things, in 1253 Nichiren predicted the Mongol invasions of Japan: a prediction which was validated in 1274.
Nichiren viewed his teachings as a method of efficaciously preventing this and other disasters: that the best countermeasure against the degeneracy of the times and its associated disasters was through the activation of Buddha-nature by chanting and the other practices which he advocated.
Nichiren was harassed frequently, several times with force, and often had to change dwellings.
Nichiren was exiled to the Izu peninsula in 1261, and pardoned in 1263.
After one exchange with the influential priest, Ryōkan ( 良観 ), Nichiren was summoned for questioning by the authorities in September 1271.
The Japanese imperial court also awarded Nichiren the honorific designations Nichiren Daibosatsu 日蓮大菩薩 " Great Bodhisattva Nichiren ", and Risshō Daishi 立正大師 " Great Teacher Risshō ; the former title was granted in 1358, and the latter in 1922.
The Kamakura period of 13th century Japan, in which Nichiren was born-was characterised by natural disasters, internal strife and confusion within Mahayana schools about whether: "... the world had further entered a period of decline " referring to the Latter Day of the Law.
Nichiren attributed the turmoil in society to the invalid teachings of the Buddhist schools of his time, including the Tendai sect in which he was ordained: " It is better to be a leper who chants Nam-myōhō-renge-kyō than be a chief abbot of the Tendai school ".
The Eternal Buddha of the Lotus Sutra was revealed in an imagery of a grand ceremony, which Nichiren regarded as the central doctrine of the Lotus Sutra.
Nichiren was a prolific writer.
Nichiren was vocal in criticizing other schools of Buddhism, using the rhetorical style of the day, and accusing them for the disastrous situation in society.
Some researchers add that Nichiren strongly criticized the esoteric rituals of other schools: “ As Sasaki notes, Nichiren ’ s view of the shift of authority from GoToba to Yoshitoki was inseparable from his criticism of the esoteric teachings.
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