Hokkekō
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Hokkekō is the mainstream lay organization affiliated with the Nichiren Shōshū. It traces its origins to three martyr disciples who were arrowed and later beheaded in the Atsuhara persecutions and a m
Founded by 56th High Priest Nichi-O Shōnin on 12 December 1898, the Grand Hodo-in Temple in Toshima Tōkyō serves as the headquarters of the Hokkekō organization of Nichiren Shōshū.
Dai Gohonzon
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The Dai Gohonzon of the High Sanctuary of the Essential Teachings, commonly known as the Dai Gohonzon is a venerated mandala image inscribed with both Sanskrit and Chinese logographs on a median log t
Hokkekō
…later beheaded in the Atsuhara persecutions and a more recent tradition of family lineages between 1726 and 1829 who have historically protected the Dai-Gohonzon over the centuries. The word Hokke is a reference to the Lotus Sūtra (妙 法 蓮 華 經 Myōhō-Renge-Kyō or 法 華 經 Hokekyō), the Buddhist scripture Nichiren…
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Photograph of the Dai Gohonzon at Taisekiji, printed in Kumada Ijō's (熊田葦城) book Nichiren Shōnin (日蓮上人), 8th edition, page 375, originally published in 1911.
A camphorwood statue of Shichimen Tennyo enshrined at Honkoji Temple in Ichikawa city in Chiba prefecture, with a Shinto mirror as part of her legend and mixed religious practice by the Nichiren Shu sect.
The Hoando storagehouse building in Taisekiji, where the Dai Gohonzon is currently enshrined.