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English: The attack of the Muslims troop against Vikramasila Temple, a leading Buddhist temple in India (persecution of Buddhism in India).
Japanese: インドの有力仏教寺院・ヴィクラマシラー寺へのイスラーム教徒の軍勢による攻撃（インドにおける仏教の弾圧）。
English: Sanbu Isso no Honan' in China: the persecution of Buddhism conducted by Taiwudi of Northern Wei (Northern Wei), by Han Wudi of Northern Thou (Northern Thou), by Wuzong of Tang (Tang) and by Sejong of Later Thou (Later Thou).
Japanese: 中国での「三武一宗の法難」と呼ばれる北魏の太武帝(北魏)・北周の武帝(北周)・唐の武宗(唐)・後周の世宗(後周)による仏教への弾圧。
English: Jodo Shinshu Shinrankai (founded in 1958) is a new sect of the Jodo Shinshu (the True Pure Land Sect of Buddhism) Sect.
Japanese: 浄土真宗親鸞会（じょうどしんしゅうしんらんかい）は、1958年に発足した、浄土真宗系の新宗教の一つ。
English: The sole aim of the sect is to propagate the teachings its founder Shinran Shonin by faithfully interpreting the writings of Shinran, Kakunyo and Rennyo.
Japanese: 「宗祖親鸞聖人の教えを広めることを唯一の目的として、親鸞、覚如、蓮如の文を根拠にして、それを忠実に解説する。」
English: Jodo Shinshu Sect Shinrankai highlights the differences in doctrine from other schools of the Shinshu Sect, especially the Honganji school (Nishi Hongan-ji temple) of the Jodo Shinshu Sect.
Japanese: 浄土真宗親鸞会では他の真宗宗派、とりわけ浄土真宗本願寺派（西本願寺）との教義上の差異を主張している。
English: Shinrankai criticizes that the teachings of the Honganji school make you do nothing.
Japanese: 親鸞会によれば本願寺の教えは何もやらなくて良い教えだと批判している。
English: It preaches the importance of shukuzen (good from past lives), and claims the pursuit of 'shinjin ketsujo (salvation by Amida).'
Japanese: 宿善が大切であると説き「信心決定（弥陀に救われること）」を目指すとする主張をする。
English: On the other hand, the way of interpreting the words of Shinran and Rennyo such as 'You must reject zogyo (miscellaneous practices) to seek salvation by Mida' is different from the interpretation in other schools in the Shinshu Sect, including Higashi and Nishi Hongan-ji Temple.
Japanese: 一方で、「弥陀に救い摂られるには、雑行を投げ捨てよ」とする親鸞、蓮如の言葉の解釈をめぐり、東西本願寺をはじめとする真宗諸派の教学解釈と異なる部分がある。
English: Eiken KOBAI of the Honganji school of the Jodo Shinshu Sect disagrees with Shinrankai's argument by saying that 'The school does not preach that people seek Jiriki Shozen in order to obtain the faith of other power'
Japanese: 浄土真宗本願寺派の紅楳英顕は「当流では他力の信心を獲るために、まず自力諸善を積まねばならないなどという説示はない」と親鸞会の主張に反論している。
English: Shinrankai uses 'Mongo Myogo (name of the Buddha)' in the Hongan Joju Bun of Amida Buddha to substantiate this practice.
Japanese: これについて親鸞会では、阿弥陀仏の本願成就文の「聞其名号」を根拠とする。
English: It explains the practice specifically follows the word of Rennyo, who said 'The school prefers portraits over wooden statues, Myogo over portraits.'
Japanese: 特に蓮如の「当流には木像よりは絵像、絵像よりは名号」の言葉に従うものと説明している。
English: Also, the principal religious objects within Shinrankai are always 'on loan' from the sect so, objects must be returned if separating from the sect.
Japanese: また親鸞会では本尊は会から「貸与」されるもので、退会の際は会に返却しなければならない。
English: Most significantly, it translates the Hongan bun as 'to save and carry everyone to absolute happiness' in modern Japanese.
Japanese: 特に本願文を「すべての人を絶対の幸福に救い摂る」ことと現代語で説明していることが大きな特徴。
English: It denies the widely known teaching of 'chanting Buddhist invocation for salvation.'
Japanese: 広く知られる「念仏を称えれば救われる」という教え方は誤っているとする。
English: Shinrankai preaches that it is important to obtain 'Tariki Shinjin' in this world, and that Buddhist invocation is something to be chanted to repay the favor of salvation.
Japanese: 親鸞会においては現世において「他力信心」を獲ることが重要であり、念仏は救われた御恩に報いるお礼として称えるものであると説く。
English: They will never be reborn in heaven' (the third letter of the third folding book of Gobunsho (Ennyo Shonin's letters for propagation)).
Japanese: それは極楽には往生せず」（御文章3帖目3通）などの証文を根拠としている。
English: This is derived from Shinran's saying 'Shinran does not seek further unique teachings; Shinran solely believes in, and propagates to others, the teachings of Nyorai.'
Japanese: 親鸞の言葉「更に親鸞珍らしき法をも弘めず、如来の教法を、われも信じ人にも教え聞かしむるばかりなり」から借りている。
English: Believers are faithful to the teachings of Shinran and, there are no ideas or ideology that is unique to Shinrankai.
Japanese: 親鸞の教えに忠実であり、親鸞会独自の考えや思想は全くないという立場を主張している。
English: Shinrankai preaches that Shaka says 'Issai Shujo (all creatures) are destined to go to Muken (the Avici hell),' indicating that people without true faith will go to Mukenjigoku after death.
Japanese: 親鸞会では釈迦は「一切衆生必堕無間」と説き、真実信心を得ていない者は死んだら無間地獄に堕ちると説いている。
English: Especially, it forms fictitious circles to recruit university students. The method is similar to those used by other new religious groups such as The Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity and Setsuri (providence) cult group.
Japanese: 特に大学での偽装サークルによる勧誘は統一協会や摂理といった新宗教団体と似ている。
English: Media representatives and people with critical views on religious cults treat the group as a cult.
Japanese: マスコミ関係者やカルト宗教に批判的な人物等からカルト的と捉えられている。
English: Also, a related company comprised mainly of younger group members called Tulip Co. produces animated videos about Shinran and sells them door to door.
Japanese: また、若年層の会員を中心として、関連会社であるチューリップ企画が製作した親鸞のアニメビデオを訪問販売する活動があった。
English: Donations are also raised according to need in order to publish TAKAMORI's books, to purchase expensive paintings, and construct new buildings.
Japanese: その他に、高森の著書が発刊されたり、高額な絵画、新しい会館の建設などの際に必要に応じて集められている。
English: Eiken KOBAI of the Honganji school of the Jodo Shinshu Sect published his article titled 'Research on different doctrines in modern times - arguments and problems of TAKAMORI Shinrankai.'
Japanese: 浄土真宗本願寺派の紅楳英顕が論文「現代における異義の研究─高森親鸞会の主張とその問題点」を発表。
English: Shinrankai repelled the article and repeatedly sent questionnaires, leading to a negative campaign against the Honganji school.
Japanese: 親鸞会はこれに反発し、再三にわたり質問状を送り、本願寺派に対する批判キャンペーンが展開される。
English: In relation to the above, approximately 1,500 members of Shinrankai held a sit-in protest at the Goei-do Hall of the Nishi Hongan-ji Temple because they felt the so-called Kobai faction had not responded sincerely.
Japanese: 上記に関し、紅楳側が誠意を持って答えていないとして、親鸞会会員約1500人が西本願寺の御影堂に座り込み抗議を行う。
English: Kenko YOSHIDA (1283 - c. May 14, 1350) was a Japanese author and poet in the Kamakura period through the Northern and Southern Courts period (Japan).
Japanese: 吉田兼好（よしだけんこう、弘安6年（1283年）-観応元年/正平(日本)5年4月8日(旧暦)（1350年5月14日）？）は、鎌倉時代から南北朝時代(日本)の随筆家・和歌。
English: The Urabe familiy was later divided into Yoshida, Hirano, and so forth; since Kenko belonged to Yoshida lineage, he came to be called Kenko YOSHIDA.
Japanese: 卜部家は後の時代に吉田家、平野家などに分かれ、兼好は吉田家系であることから吉田兼好と通称されるようになった。
English: The Urabe family had been in charge of bokusen (augury) since ancient times and many of the familiy members had served as officers of Jingikan (department of worship); Kenko's father was also a Shinto priest of Yoshida-jinja Shrine.
Japanese: 卜部氏は古代より卜占を司り、神祇官を出す神職の家で、兼好の父も吉田神社の神職であった。
English: Although Kaneyoshi served for Emperor Gouda as the Hokumen no Bushi (the Imperial Palace Guards) and was promoted to Jugoinoge-sahyoenosuke (Junior Fifth Rank, Lower Grade, Deputy Chief of the Palace Guard of the Left), he entered the priesthood and changed his name to Kenko after the death of the Retired Emperor.
Japanese: 後宇多天皇に北面の武士として仕え、従五位下左兵衛佐まで上ったが、上皇の死後、出家して兼好（けんこう）を名乗った。
English: It is known that Kenko visited Kamakura at least twice; he was very close to Sadaaki KANAZAWA, who was Gokenin (an immediate vassal of the Shogunate in the Kamakura and Muromachi through Edo periods) when Kenko visited him, and subsequently became Shikken (a regent) of the Kamakura Shogunate.
Japanese: 鎌倉に2回は訪問滞在したことが知られ、鎌倉幕府の御家人で後に執権となる金沢貞顕と親しくしている。
English: It is said that Kenko had a hermitage in the site of Jyogo-ji Temple, which is currently located in Kanazawa Ward, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture.
Japanese: その時、現在の神奈川県横浜市金沢区の上行寺内に庵があったと伝えられる。
English: "Tsurezuregusa" (Essays in idleness), which describes various topics including natural features in prose, is regarded as one of the three major Japanese essays; it also gives information to understand the tendencies and customs of the society at that time.
Japanese: 『徒然草』は自然の風物などが散文として書かれ日本の日本三大一覧に数えられ、また当時の社会風潮などを知るための資料にもなっている。
English: Eighteen of his waka (poems) are included in waka compilations such as "Shokusenzai Wakashu"(a collection of Japanese Poems of a Thousand Years, Continued) and "Shokugoshui Wakashu"(Later Collection of Gleanings of Japanese Poems, Continued) and he is regarded as one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Waka of the Nijo family.
Japanese: 『続千載和歌集』・『続後拾遺集』等に和歌合計18首が収められており、二条家和歌四天王の一人にも数えられている。
English: Kenko was on friendly terms through literature with Sadayo (Ryoshun) IMAGAWA, who was the Kyushu Tandai (a local commissioner of the Kyushu Region) for Muromachi bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun).
Japanese: 室町幕府の九州探題である今川貞世（了俊）とも文学を通じて親交があった。
English: It is also said that Kenko became close to KO no Moronao, the steward of the Ashikaga clan in his later years; it is mentioned in "Taiheiki" (The Record of the Great Peace) that Kenko wrote a love letter on behalf of Moronao.
Japanese: また晩年は、当時の足利氏の執事、高師直に接近したとされ、『太平記』に、その恋文を代筆したとの記述がある。
English: Shinjo ITO (Fumiaki ITO, March 28, 1906 - July 19, 1989) was a religious leader who founded Shinnyoen, the lay Buddhist Organization.
Japanese: 伊藤真乗（いとうしんじょう、俗名：伊藤文明（いとうふみあき）、明治39年（1906年）3月28日-平成元年（1989年）7月19日）は、日本の宗教家で、在家仏教教団・真如苑の開祖。
English: His secular name "文明" read as 'Fumiaki' was his official name but may often read as 'Bunmei' by its Chinese-derived pronunciation.
Japanese: なお俗名の「文明」は「ふみあき」が正式名称であるが、｢ぶんめい｣と音読みする場合も多い。
English: It is said that he was once abandoned in an alley, picked up by neighbors, and returned to his parents' home a week later according to the customs of the neighborhood, because he was born in the climacteric year for his father,
Japanese: 父・文二郎の本厄年に生まれたので、村の風習に随って、いったん路地に捨てられ、近所の人に拾ってもらい、1週間後に再び実家に戻されたという。
English: He was regarded as a child prodigy from his infancy and had the mysterious power of predicting people's birth and death and others.
Japanese: 幼少時から周囲より神童と呼ばれ、人の生死を予言するなど不思議な能力を持っていた。
English: His father Bunjiro took office as chamberlain of Akita village and later even became a member of a village assembly.
Japanese: 父・文二郎は秋田村の役場で収入役職に就いていたが、後に村会議員にもなっている。
English: His father, when taking office as chamberlain, was a benefactor who paid taxes for villagers on their behalf.
Japanese: 収入役の時分には税金を納められない村人の分を、自身が代りに納めていたという篤志家でもあった
English: It is said that a large box containing receipts of those taxes was found later in the earthen storehouse (a storehouse with thick earth and mortar walls) of the Ito.
Japanese: のちにたくさんの納税の領収書が入っていた大きな箱が伊藤家の土蔵の中から出てきたという。
English: In fact, however, these generous activities never made his family so well-off, although his family was said to be wealthy.
Japanese: ただし裕福といわれるも、このような行為から決して楽ではなかったとされる。
English: The maiden name of his mother, Yoshie, was Yamamoto, and the family tree is said to reach to Kansuke YAMAMOTO, who had been a strategist of Shingen TAKEDA.
Japanese: また、母・よしえの旧姓は山本であるが、武田信玄の軍師である山本勘助の流れを汲む家系ともいわれる。
English: Yoshie's father, Shigeharu, was a prominent figure and served as the principal of an elementary school.
Japanese: よしえの父・彙治（しげはる）は小学校校長を務めたほどの名士であった。
English: Among his six brothers and sisters, he was the only person that the art of divination 'Koyoryu byozeisho (Selections on Divination of Illness of Koyo-ryu school)' based on "Koyo Gunkan," the art of warfare of Shingen TAKEDA was handed down by word of mouth as had been passed down for generations to the family.
Japanese: 伊藤家家伝の易学で武田信玄の兵法『甲陽軍鑑』をベースとする「甲陽流病筮鈔（びょうぜいしょう）」を口伝により6人兄弟姉妹の中でただ一人受け継ぐ。
English: Kai koku shi (Records of Kai Province)' describes that Tokuhon NAGATA, a noted Chinese medicine doctor, examined shogun of the Takeda family according to this art of divination, and that the Ito's ancestor was listed as a donor for the building of Manseizan Myoki-in Temple (a branch temple of Choyozan Seikozen-ji Temple).
Japanese: 「甲斐国志」によると永田徳本という漢方医の達人がこの易学を以って武田家将軍の診察に当っており、また伊藤家の祖先の名前も万生山妙喜院（朝陽山清光禅寺の末寺）を寄進建立したとして記載されている。
English: Fumiaki (later Shinjo) was not taught how to write his name 'byozeisho'in kanji by his father so he wrote it as '病筮鈔.'
Japanese: 「びょうぜいしょう」は父親が名付けたものであるが、どういう漢字で書くか父に教わっていなかったので文明（後の真乗）が「病筮鈔」と当て字した。
English: He left for Tokyo with an ambition to work hard at mastering English and soon worked for 'Taiseido shop,' a photographic apparatus shop located in Kandanishiki-cho.
Japanese: 苦学を志し英語を勉強するために上京、すぐに神田錦町の写真機材店「大盛堂」に勤める。
English: He obtained and translated the diagram written in English and the shop built a radio based on it for sales.
Japanese: 英語で書かれたラジオの配線図を入手し、これを文明が翻訳して組み立てたものが同店から発売された。
English: He got such a high reputation as an amateur photographer that he won the highest prize in the photo contest hosted by Tachikawa Monopoly Bureau and communications department of the Yomiuri Shinbun in 1934 as well as in 'the First Photo Constest' hosted by Tamagako kai (organization of Tamagako) in 1834.
Japanese: また趣味の写真も相当なものであったという評判で、昭和9年の読売新聞立川専売局及び通信部主催のコンクールで1等を受賞、また翌10年にも多摩雅光会主催の「第１回写真展覧会」でも2等1席を獲得。
English: In addition, the April issue of monthly magazine 'Gendai' carried a photo of Fumiaki on its opening page along with a poem titled 'Light' of Saisei MUROO in the same year.
Japanese: さらに同年の月刊誌「現代」4月号の巻頭で、室生犀星の詩「光」と共に文明の写真が掲載されている。
English: Since he worked as an engineer; his life was settled enough to buy an expensive camera from Leica in those days when people described it as saying, "Let's get a Leica or house."
Japanese: 技術者として勤務していたことで、「ライカ買おうか、家買おか」と言われた当時、高価なライカのカメラを買えるほど生活は安定していた。
English: Immediately after the marriage, however, the couple began to realize their religious missions behind their own backgrounds through abnormalities in the health and career of Fumiaki (Shinjo).
Japanese: しかし、結婚直後に文明（真乗）の仕事面や健康面に変調があり、それらを通してお互いの背景にある宗教的使命を感じるようになる。
English: Also Shinjo had had faith in Protestantism of Christianity and practiced it on the advice of his elder sister, however Tomoji was said to had difficulty in getting accustomed to it.
Japanese: また真乗は実姉の勧めでキリスト教のプロテスタントにも関心を持ち研鑚したが、友司が馴染めなかったという。
English: When an elder ex-colleague of Tachikawa Aircraft had his fortune told in Ikebukuro, he mentioned the name of ITO.
Japanese: 立川飛行機の同僚で先輩だったある人物が、池袋で占い師に見てもらったとき、伊藤の名前を出した。
English: The fortune-teller hearing of ITO is said to have said, "You do not have to pay any fee if you are an acquaintance of ITO. "
Japanese: 「立川の伊藤さんのお知り合いならば見料はいりません」といわれたという話がある。
English: He gave a warning to General Affairs Division of Tachikawa Aircraft to be on guard in the direction of northeast and instructed those concerned to carefully set up fire-extinguishing equipment.
Japanese: また立川飛行機の庶務課より丑寅の方角を警戒するようにと示されたので、関係者に注意し消化設備に万全を期した。
English: It is said that the company offered Fumiaki an exclusive contract for the service of solving problems and determining business conditions but he declined the offer because of his family's kakun (family percept) that divination is not allowed for the pursuit of profit.
Japanese: 会社側は金を払って諸問題の経決や経営診断などを専属でやってもらいたいと文明に申し出たが、営利の為の易は禁ずるという家訓により断ったという。
English: Around 1933 or 1934, he had a connection with Shingon Esoteric Buddhism after a Shingon Buddhist visited him and said, "Please teach the art of divination in exchange for Shingon Esoteric Buddhism."
Japanese: 昭和8,9年頃に1人の真言僧が「易学を教えてほしい、代わりに真言密教を呈上するので」と訪ねてきたことにより真言密教と結縁した。
English: In the next year, he was asked by Nakamaru okunodoshi, a sculptor master of Buddhist statues, to call up and infuse the spirit of the statue of Dainichi Daisho Fudo Myoo, a very precious statue with heijogan (literally, normal eyes) --gojibutsu of Tokimasa HOJO believed to be made by Unkei Itto-Sanrai (to worship three times with every stroke on sculpturing statues) and believed to be gojibutsu of Tokimasa HOJO.
Japanese: 翌昭和10年に仏師の大家である仲丸奥堂師より運慶一刀三礼（いっとう・さんらい）の作で北条時政公の御持仏と口伝され、平常眼（へいじょうがん）という非常に珍しい大日大聖不動明王（だいにちだいしょう・ふどうみょうおう）像を勧請した。
English: Shinjo at first had asked the sculptor to make an identical statue of the Buddha and intended to buy it.
Japanese: なお真乗は当初、その仏像と同じものを刻んでほしいと頼み、その仏像を購入する予定であった。
English: However, master NAKAMARU is said to have had an extraordinary experience as he quoted, "The statue made him unwilling to make an identical copy because it wants to go to the Fumiaki."
Japanese: しかし仲丸師によれば「どうしてもこの不動明王が先生（文明）のもとへ行きたいといって彫らせてくれない」という不思議な体験があったという。
English: Master MAKAMARU, after this experience, offered to give the statue to Fumiaki for nothing.
Japanese: 仲丸師はこの体験から家宝である不動明王像を無償で譲ることを申し出た。
English: However Ito felt obliged and paid three million yen in token of his gratitude to receive the statue at his home.
Japanese: しかし、伊藤はそれでは申し訳ないということから、金三百円を謝礼として払い自宅に迎えた。
English: The three million yen is a great bargain to pay for a statue of Buddha made in the Kamakura period but never a small amount.
Japanese: なおこれは、鎌倉期作といわれる仏像に払う金額としては破格の安さではあるが、決して少ない額ではない。
English: In those days when the average monthly wages for salaried workers was about 50 yen, ITO's salary as an engineer was higher than the average but the money he managed to raise by selling his expensive camera and others was short of the 3 million yen.
Japanese: 当時の勤め人の平均月給は五十円程度の時代で、伊藤はまだ会社勤務の技術者だったため、平均月給よりも高給を得ていたが、所持していた高価なカメラなどを処分しても三百円に足りなかった。
English: It is said that people who gathered with faith in Byozeisho heard of his intention to buy the statue of Fudo-son and gave him jozai (donation) so he was able to raise the money.
Japanese: 病筮鈔を信じて集まっていた人々に不動尊像を迎えたいと洩らしたところ、賛同を得て浄財が集まり捻出されたものであるという。
English: This shows that the religious organization had been already spontaneously growing before the organization was established.
Japanese: この事は立教前の時点で既に講組織が自然発生的に出来つつあったことを表している。
English: It was snowing on the morning when the statue of Fudo-son was given but it stopped snowing and cleared up around 1 p.m.
Japanese: なお不動尊像譲渡当日の朝は雪が降っていたが午後1時ごろにはそれも止んで晴れ渡った。
English: It is said that Fumiaki and two daughters of master NAKAMARU, when they were in the taxi on his way home, saw clouds in five colors trailing from the engine of the car, although it was not in the evening.
Japanese: 帰宅途中のタクシーの車中からエンジンのあたりに、夕方でもないのに五色の雲が棚引いて車と共に走っているのを文明や仲丸師の2人の娘など一行が見たという。
English: It is also said that these clouds were found out to be saiun (glowing clouds) believed to be a good omen in Buddhism.
Japanese: これは仏教で非常によい兆しとされる彩雲であったことが後にわかったという。
English: He took mizugori (cold-water ablutions) from January 4, at the very beginning of the year, to January 31 before completion (fulfillment) of a vow, when Tomoji showed the power of see through.
Japanese: 年明け早々・1月4日から寒修行として水垢離（みずごり）をとり、満願前の1月31日の友司の透視をする。
English: He looked back on the days around the completion day of the vow (February 3) in kanshugyo (ascetic practices in cold weather), saying that the coupled feeling uncertainty of devoting themselves to the field of religion were as if they had fought between Buddha and a man; one proposed to get devoted to the religion while the other opposed to it and vice versa.
Japanese: この寒修行満願の日（2月3日）前後に関して文明は、仕事をやめて宗教の道に入る不安が夫婦ともにあり、片一方が仏道を提唱すると片一方は反対し、また逆になったりして、仏と人間との斗（たたか）いであったと回想している。
English: This made them turn their lives into financial difficulty from well-to-do lives.
Japanese: これを境に不自由のない安定した生活から一転し生活が困窮するようになった。
English: It is said that, when he called up and infused the spirit of Fudo Myoo and had kanshugyo, a sendatsu (a guide) advised him by saying, "it is better for you to become a disciple of mine because ordinary people can not protect such a outstanding statue of image."
Japanese: また不動明王を勧請して寒修行を行なった時に「このような立派な尊像は、普通の人では護り切れないから、自分の弟子になれ」と勧めた1人の先達がいたという。
English: He said, "This is only what I can still guess, but I believe he wanted this precious statue."
Japanese: 未だにそのようにしか推量できないが、と断った上で「その先達は、この希有な尊像が欲しくなったのであろう。」と述べている。
English: But Fumiaki rather felt a pity for the way the sendatsu saw it as only valuable things and no religious leader should do that, and thought that the sendatsu might have suffered from the anger and blame the sendatsu put on Fumiaki from a different point of view.
Japanese: 文明は、価値あるモノと見るような、宗教家としてあるまじき相(すがた)に、かえって哀れを感じ、これを狭量に解釈すれば、腹も立ち相手を責める気持ちに自分も苦しんでいったに違いない、と感じた。
English: Fumiaki also thought that he needed to put himself in another person's place and, in consideration of this issue, he decided to always earnestly pursue a calm mind and train himself to become a religious leader superior to the sendatsu.
Japanese: 文明はまた、ひとたび自分を、相手の立場において考えてみると、この事象に対応して、常に不動心に燃え、その先達を凌駕するだけの宗教家になろう、と決意しさらに修行に徹した。.
English: He recalled this event and expressed his thoughts that this is the grateful lesson that Lord Buddha gave me and the admonition with deep mercy beyond expression.
Japanese: それもみ仏が与えてくださったありがたい教訓であり、言外に余る慈悲溢れるお諭しであった、と述懐している。
English: The teachings of the school, Kintai-ryobu denpo-kanjo was completed after Ein Kanjo (the ceremony to be the successor of a ritual of the Ein School) was held at Daigo-ji Temple in 1941, the year when war between Japan and the United States broke out on December 8.
Japanese: 醍醐寺にて恵印灌頂に続き、金胎両部伝法灌頂を法畢した年（昭和16年)の12月8日は日米開戦の日である。
English: At the end of the previous year, 1940, he was told by Tomoji, "Something serious will happen next year.
Japanese: その前年・15年暮れに「来年は、大変な年になりますよ。と友司から告げられた。、
English: It is said that, on March 3, 1941, Shinjo also saw Benito MUSSOLINI, Adolf Hitler, and Stalin having a meeting in his dream and had a feeling that "war," even a great war is going to start.
Japanese: 真乗も16年の3月3日の晩に、ベニート・ムッソリーニとアドルフ・ヒトラーとスターリンが会談している夢を見て、“戦争”を感じ、しかも大戦争になることを予感したという。
English: In 1944, the war raged and bombs were dropped in Tachikawa and Tomoji and children evacuated to the countryside.
Japanese: 昭和19年になると戦争が更に激しくなり立川も爆撃され、友司と子供を疎開させた。
English: It has been said that neighbors said, "A radiotelegraph must be within the temple for communication."
Japanese: 周囲の人からは「本堂に無線装置があって連絡があるのではないか。」と言われたという。
English: Neighbors also suspected that he might be a spy by saying, "Without such a equipment, he could not have avoided the air raids by going to the country side. "
Japanese: 「でなければ、あんなに田舎に帰って避けられるはずがない」と、スパイの噂もかけられたという。
English: With the end of the war, Godo Shingon shu (joint Shingon sect) broke up into individual original schools.
Japanese: なお昭和20年の終戦によって、合同真言宗は解体し、それぞれもとの宗派に分かれた。
English: Tachikawa Fudoson Kyokai' seceded from the Shingon sect and established 'Makoto religious organization,' a nonaligned and independent organization whose authority is the Nirvana Sutra.
Japanese: 「立川不動尊教会」は真言宗を離脱し、大般涅槃経を所依とする、いずれの束縛も受けない独立の教団として「まこと教団」を発足した。
English: When he was put into a jail as the result of an accusation by an ex-follower, he was in a cell with a vicious parricide murderer because he was told, "A religious leader like you must have an ability to give a hand to such a vicious man."
Japanese: 一人の元弟子の告訴により監獄に入れられた際、「あなたが宗教家なら、このような人も助けることができるだろう」と兇暴な尊属殺人犯と同房にされたことがあった。
English: (Shinjo was told that the man was a parricide murderer, but he was not a parricide murderer but the man was a lineal murderer because he killed his nephew.)
Japanese: （※真乗は「尊属」殺人犯と述べているが、彼は自分の甥を殺害した男なので、「尊属」殺人犯ではなく「卑属」殺人犯である）
English: However, he came to open his mind, after Shinjo looked after him, when he was sick, by cooling his forehead with a towel soaked with water valuable in a jail, and chanting ryoju of Fudo Myoo.
Japanese: しかし獄舎の中では貴重な水を手ぬぐいに浸して額を冷やし、不動明王の霊咒を唱えて看病すると、次第に素直になった。
English: Although the man used an impolite way of addressing Shijo like 'Omae,' he began to use polite and respectful ways, such as 'Dannna (sir)' or 'Sensei (teacher)' and listen to him with an open mind.
Japanese: 「お前」と呼ばれていたのが「旦那」、「先生」と変わり、素直に話を聞くようになった。
English: Seeing this change, another prisoner is said to have showed Shinjo a tattoo written as 'You know the deepest mind of others when you come down in the world and shed tears to wet a sleeve.'
Japanese: これを見ていた別の罪人が「落魄(おちぶ)れて袖に涙のかかるとき　人の心の奥ぞ知らるる」という刺青を真乗に見せたという。
English: It is also said that Shinjo read all the three volumes of Mikkyo daijiten (Encyclopedia of Esoteric Buddhism) many times until they became worn out.
Japanese: また刑務所内では密教大辞典全3刊を何度も何度も読み返し本がボロボロになったという。
English: In a trial over this religious persecution, his lawyers were at first acquaintances of followers.
Japanese: この法難における裁判では、当初は信徒の知り合いなどの弁護士がついた。
English: And then Shojuin visited the home of Senzo HIGAI, who was a Minister of State of the second Yoshida cabinet, and was from the same town, Yamanashi Prefecture and also a legal scholar, and explained the details of what happened.
Japanese: そのため、摂受院が人づてから当時の第3次吉田内閣の国務大臣で、また同郷山梨の出身で法学者でもある樋貝詮三の自宅を訪ね、事情を懇々と説明したという。