Nichiren | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-09

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00:04:28 1 Biography
00:05:20 1.1 Birth
00:07:24 1.2 Buddhist education
00:09:29 1.3 Declaration of Nam(u) Myoho Renge Kyo
00:11:53 1.4 First remonstration to the Kamakura government
00:16:53 1.5 Attempt at execution
00:19:59 1.6 Second banishment and exile
00:22:46 1.7 The Mandala Gohonzon
00:24:50 1.8 Return to Kamakura
00:26:18 1.9 Retirement to Mount Minobu
00:30:08 1.10 Death
00:31:26 2 Teachings
00:34:04 2.1 Contributions based on Tendai or contemporary thought
00:34:31 2.1.1 Immanence
00:36:56 2.1.2 The Latter Day of the Law
00:38:04 2.1.3 Debate and polemics
00:41:14 2.1.4 "Single Practice" Buddhism
00:42:10 2.1.5 Protective forces
00:43:41 2.2 Unique teachings
00:43:56 2.2.1 "The Five Principles"
00:44:38 2.2.2 The Four Denunciations
00:46:11 2.2.3 The doctrine of the Three Great Secret Dharmas
00:49:27 2.2.4 Changing karma to mission
00:52:57 2.2.5 The great vow to achieve Kosen-rufu
00:55:12 3 Nichiren and his followers
00:57:12 4 After Nichiren's death
00:57:38 5 Writings
00:58:57 5.1 Selected important writings
01:00:37 5.2 Personal letters to followers
01:02:33 5.3 Writings to women



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Nichiren (日蓮; born as Zennichimaro (善日麿), Dharma name: Rencho - 16 February 1222 – 13 October 1282) was a Japanese Buddhist priest who lived during the Kamakura period (1185–1333) and developed the teachings that are now considered Nichiren Buddhism, a branch school of Mahayana Buddhism.Nichiren was highly controversial in his day  and was known for preaching that the Lotus Sutra alone contains the highest truth of Buddhist teachings and represents the effective teaching for the Third Age of Buddhism. He declared that social and political peace are dependent on the quality of the belief system that is upheld in a nation. He advocated the repeated recitation of the Sutra's title, Nam(u)-myoho-renge-kyo.  In addition, he held that the historical Shakyamuni Buddha was the manifestation of a Buddha-nature that is equally accessible to all.  He insisted that those who claim to be believers of the Sutra must propagate it even in the face of persecution.Nichiren was a prolific writer and his biography, temperament, and the evolution of his thinking has been primarily gleaned from his own writings. He launched his teachings in 1253, advocating an exclusive return to the Lotus Sutra as based on its original Tendai interpretations. His 1260 treatise Risshō Ankoku Ron (立正安国論) (On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land) argued that a nation that embraces the Lotus Sutra will experience peace and prosperity whereas rulers who support inferior religious teachings invite disorder and disaster into their realms. In a 1264 essay he stated that the title of the Lotus Sutra, "Nam(u)-myoho-renge-kyo," encompasses all Buddhist teachings and its recitation leads to enlightenment. As a result of his adamant stance he experienced severe persecution imposed by the Kamakura Shogunate and consequently began to see himself as "bodily reading the Lotus Sutra (Jpn. Hokke shikidoku)." In some of his writings during a second exile (1271-1274) he began to identify himself with the key Lotus Sutra characters Sadāparibhūta and Visistacaritra and saw himself in the role of leading a vast outpouring of Bodhisattvas of the Earth.In 1274, after his two predictions of foreign invasion and political strife were seemingly actualized by the first attempted Mongol invasion of Japan along with  an unsuccessful coup within the Hōjō clan, Nichiren was pardoned by the Shogunate authorities and his advice was sought but not heeded. The Risshō Ankoku Ron in which he first predicted foreign invasion and civil disorder  is now considered by Japanese historians to be a literary classic il ...