The True Intention of Nichiren - Part 3

Nichiren told his two disciples that he respects Buddha a great deal, but moreover he respects his motherland Japan. He confessed that he went to Ise Jingu(The Grand Shrine of Ise) before he began his journey to swear he would lead the nation to reconnect with Amaterasu-Ohomikami through the Hokkekyo.

He showed them the mandala he had written where Amaterasu-Ohomikami was placed in the center of the scroll. And said that he wanted to lead his followers to believe in worshipping Amaterasu-Ohomikami, the Goddess of Japan, and asked his two top disciples if they could support him on this idea.

The two disciples were shocked to hear this. For a very long time, regarded as heretics, they have sacrificed their time and effort believing that Hokkekyo was the ultimate teaching of Buddhism. They have propagated and gathered many followers and donations. They believed that it was done all through their effort and Nichiren did not know how much work they had sacrificed to reach this far. Even for the sake of the founder, they just could not allow the organization to fall down because of Nichiren’s (the founder), drastic act. So the two top disciples both agreed on something. They decided to put a small amount of poisonous herb in Nichiren’s food every day. Nichiren became weaker and weaker as the time went by.

Nichiren knew that his food was poisoned but he did not stop eating. He felt that it was his way of repentance towards many of his disciples who had been killed through the act of propagation. Until the end of his time, he thought more for his disciples and the nation than his own life.

Nichiren had written three mandalas with Amaterasu-Ohomikami in the center and a pronouncement for his belief in Amaterasu-Ohomikami. But after his death, the disciples had burned them all leaving no trace.

The two disciples continued to develop the Buddhist sect. However, later the two had some disagreements and decided to make two different paths. Even after the separation, they were constantly in fear about the fact that they killed the founder and erased the documents with his true intention. From this fear, they strictly prohibited their followers to visit a Shinto shrine.

The god spirit who had given me this information clearly mentioned the disciples’ names, but I had decided not to reveal it. But I can say that what they did at that time, still reflect on their descendents or followers of today.

Nichiren’s grand goal through the teachings of Hokkekyo was to lead the nation to reconnect with the Sun.

I sincerely wish that the successful religious sects of today who are the followers of Nichiren would have the chance to read this to know the truth of Nichiren’s intention and to follow it. To ackowledge the fact that Nichiren had visited Ise Jingu for a hundred days before he began his propagation and the fact that he had written the name of the sun goddess in the center of his hand made mandala.

This story is dedicated to Nichiren who lived his life with great passion towards his beloved motherland Japan.

Ikashite-itadaite Arigato-gozaimasu

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The True Intention of Nichiren - Part 2

Nichiren has been claiming the Shika Kakugen (四箇格言) criticizing other Buddhist sects that all other teachings were evil, leading to no-attainment. His passionate propagation reached the ears of Bakufu (government) who were believers of another Buddhist sect. Nichiren was arrested for his antigovernment activity. He received a beheading death sentence. At the execution ground of Tatsu-no-kuchi, when he was going to have his head cut off, it is said that two balls of light came to the ground trying to disturb the execution.

With my psychic vision, I can see that the executor attempted three times. The first two times, the executor heard a strange sound from the light balls that scared him off. He still attempted the third time but was paralyzed and couldn’t move his arms at all. The officers were troubled by this unusual incident and reported to the Bakuhu. When the message was delivered to the Bakufu, some of the officers witnessed the light balls at the government house as well. The Bakuhu announces to stop the execution.

When Nichiren from sitting on the execution ground, he was repeating “Namu-Kanzenon-Bosatsu, Amaterasu-Ohomikami.”As it has been documented in the Hokkekyo, those who are calling for the Kannon shall be protected by the power of Kannon and no sword can come against it, and with no doubt, Nichiren believed that he cannot be touched. Those thoughts of his had attracted the light balls that are spirits sent through the light of Amaterasu-Ohomikami.


Nichiren, although able to avoid death, was condemned to exile. During his time of exile, he had the time to look back on his own behavior. And when his time was over, he started writing a Hokkekyo mandala. Later in history, when a sect was established after his belief, the organization had made his madala as their principal image. Usually a statue of Buddha is placed on an altar, but in his sect, the mandala was placed. The divine body was replaced with letters. On the madala, the letters“Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō”(南無妙法蓮華経) was written in the center. Around those letters, names of bosatsus were placed. Curiously enough, just one name from a Shinto god was placed on this same mandala. It was Amaterasu-Ohomikami. This signifies the intention of Nichiren.

In his early stage of writing the mandala, Nichiren wrote Amaterasu-Ohimikami at the lower end of the scroll. As the time passes and his sect grew larger, he began writing Amaterasu-Ohomikami on the higher end of the scroll. But he never explained the reason to his disciples. When his sect had grown big enough, his final intention appears on the mandala. He wrote Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō in very small letters, in a shape of a lotus flower on the lower part of the scroll. And wrote Amaterasu-Ohomikami in large letters on the center of the scroll as if she was standing on the lotus flower. When two of his closest disciples saw this mandala, they were astonished. They followed Nichiren for many years as a Buddhist. They were also established in their position in the organization as leaders. After seeing this mandala, they made an unexpected move. To be continued…

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The True Intention of *Nichiren - Part 1

After studying the Buddhist literature diligently, Nichiren was convinced that Hokkekyo (法華経) sutra was the most powerful with highest intention that is truthful to the original intention of Buddha. He began visiting all the different Buddhist schools to denounce the true intention of Buddha. He did not stop only with Buddhist schools but to other occult sects. He visited different dojo(school) of exorcism or shamanism trying to convince them to become a believer of the Hokkekyo sutra.

Nichiren believed in the power of Hokkekyo sutra with all his mighty soul and went to schools after schools like a fireball running around. But for some reason, he never went to any of the Shinto sects to convince his belief. It was not because he didn’t believe in convincing them. Why did he neglect to propagate to the Shintoists? The secret lies here.

With my psychic vision, I understand that Nichiren was born to a fisherman who lived by the ocean and believed in worshipping the sun. This childhood experience sets a foundation deep inside of him that becomes the core of his understanding about spirituality. (read more -blog Oct.6-08)

At this time, Buddhism was widely popular through out Japan. Nichiren had a sense of discomfort about this. I sense that Nichiren’s soul was a derivative spirit of God Susanoo. ((a brother of Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami in mythology. He is the yin side of the sun. Amaterasu is the yan side of the sun))

So he came up with an idea with a big ambition to become the most famous preacher in Buddhism in order to unite all the Buddhist schools and lead them to worship the Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami.

The first thing Nichiren did was to go to Mt.Hiei(比叡山) in Kyoto. There he went through all the sutras and found out that the spirit of Amaterasu-Ohomikami was hidden inside The Eleven Headed Kannon or Quan Yin (十一面観世音菩薩) through Myōhō Renge Kyō (妙法蓮華経 = Hokkekyo) sutra. He shivered from astonishment when he found this out. He witnessed the big intention from the Gods in this sutra. He was ready to propagate the belief of Hokkekyo.

Before he started his propagation, he visited the Gegū of The Grand Shrine of Ise. He stayed at Tendaishu Jōmyōji Temple (天台宗常明寺) in Ise. He purified his body with the water from the well every morning and visited the shrine for 100 days asking for mercy to Sun Goddess Amaterasu-Ohomikami so he could complete his mission to unite the Buddhists to chant the Hokkekyo sutra. The historical fact that a man who is trying to open a new stream of Buddhism, visiting a Shinto shrine before his mission is most peculiar. And the journey will unfold to a surprising conclusion. …to be continued.


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*Nichiren 日蓮 :A Buddhist monk of 13th century Japan. A controversial figure during his lifetime, he is the founder of Nichiren Buddhism, a major Japanese Buddhist stream encompassing several schools of often widely conflicting doctrine.(from Wikipedia)