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Monk Nichiren travelling through snow on Sado island, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1830).
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Monk Nichiren travelling through snow on Sado island, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1830).
Horiuchi Tenrei - Life of Nichiren, High Tide, 1932
Inari Daimyōjin (稲荷大明神) as a goddess riding a fox from Saijō Inarisan Myōkyōji Temple (最上稲荷山妙教寺) in Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
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Fri. 14th - RELATIONSHIPS AND KARMA: ARE WE DESTINED TO REPEAT CYCLES?
Are we trapped in the same painful relationships? Do we keep attracting the same struggles? Karma is not fate, it is CAUSE and EFFECT.
The Lotus Sutra teaches that change is always possible. Through chanting, we awaken to the patterns we have created and gain the power to break them. If we want different results, we must plant different seeds. Transform your karma, and you transform your relationships.
Namu Myoho Renge Kyo.
What is the Lotus Sutra?
One of the most influential sacred texts in Buddhism is the Lotus Sutra. The Lotus Sutra has had a tremendous influence on Buddhism as we know it today. Much of Buddhist culture as we know it either came from the Lotus Sutra, or was influenced by its ideas and teachings. Not everything, of course. But the influence is hard to ignore. If you know the Lotus Sutra, a lot of things about Buddhist…
In this 1835 print, Life of Nichiren: A Vision of Prayer on the Waves, Utagawa Kuniyoshi depicts a scene from Nichiren’s biography where the sacred daimoku appears at sea. | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Henry L. Phillips Collection