Buddhist Concepts Category
The Life of Nichiren Daishonin
Ikeda Lecture Series
Soka Spirit
Wild Card
100
In this Gosho, Nichiren Daishonin encouraged practitioners to "exert ourselves in the two ways of practice and study based on faith".
What is "The True Aspect of all Phenomena"?
100
This is the significance of April 28, 1253, in the life of Nichiren Daishonin.
What is "He established his teaching of chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo?"
100
According to SGI President Ikeda’s lecture on Nichiren’s “On the Buddha’s Prophecy,” this is the teaching to be spread widely in the Latter Day of the Law
What is the great Law of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, which is the essence of the Lotus Sutra?
100
This is the religious policy the Japanese government implemented during World War II
What is Shinto
100
This is how we vanquish our fundamental darkness
What is using wisdom to "pick our battles"?
200
These are the "three proofs" set forth by Nichiren in "Three Tripitaka Masters Pray for Rain"?
What are Documentary, theoretical and actual?
200
This happened to Nichiren at the beach in Tatsunokuchi on September 12, 1271
What is A failed attempt to execute him?
200
This is Nichiren’s prediction about the great Law of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo in the future
What is "It will spread throughout the world."?
200
This is What happened to the first and second Soka Gakkai presidents Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda when they opposed the government policies on religion
What is "they were imprisoned"?
200
Based on SGI President Ikeda’s lecture on “On the Buddha’s Prophecy,” this characterizes the Latter Day of the Law in regard to Shakyamuni’s teachings
What is "It is an age when his influence as a teacher declines, his teachings lapse into formality and Buddhism as a whole loses its power to lead people to enlightenment. It is a time when Shakyamuni’s teachings remain in form only and are neither practiced nor produce any proof of benefit (enlightenment). It is also an age when people’s life force wanes and when the age itself becomes polluted."
300
This is the term used for Happiness based on favorable external circumstances
What is Relative Happiness?
300
He accompanied Nichiren during his exile on Sado and shared in his hardships
Who is Nikko?
300
This is the concept that Nichiren is referring to when he says "By overcoming trials through the power of faith, we can savor victory".
What is "Winter Always Turns to Spring"?
300
This is the name of the article that listed several points or errors such as: Conspiring to obstruct kosen-rufu, The misuse of rituals and ceremonies, and Misinterpreting the “heritage of the Law.”
What is "article “The Errors of the Nichiren Shoshu Priesthood”?"
300
This is why Nichiren states that being born at this time is a cause for rejoicing
What is "Nichiren rejoices in being born in this age because the Latter Day coincides with the “last five-hundred-year period” that Shakyamuni explains is the time for the realization of his wish for the widespread propagation of the Mystic Law throughout the entire world."
400
The tendency toward arrogance and disregard for others is considered a metaphor for this...
What is The “devil king of the sixth heaven”?
400
This is the name of the time when believers of Nichiren’s teachings were severely harassed by authorities.
What was the Atsuhara Persecution?
400
the Buddhist attitude toward “winter,” or obstacles of challenging severe “winters" (successfully) is referred to as this
What is Buddhahood?
400
Nichiren Shoshu priests claim that if they do not conduct this ceremony...the deceased will never attain Buddhahood
What is a funeral?
400
Based on SGI President Ikeda’s lecture on “Letter to Misawa,” this is what the devil king abhors most
What is "The devil king most abhors the possibility that the Buddha’s forces could multiply and take over his realm. When a votary of the Mystic Law attains enlightenment, that person invariably leads many others to free themselves from the fetters of the devil king."
500
This SGI president said "True happiness is not feeling happiness one moment and misery the next. Rather, overcoming the tendency to blame our suffering on others or on the environment enables us to greatly expand our state of life."
Who is President Ikeda?
500
Where was Nichiren when he Trained his disciples and wrote letters and treatises AFTER Sado?
Where is Minobu?
500
This concept means fundamental ignorance of the fact that our lives and those of others are entities of the Mystic Law. This fundamental ignorance is the source of all other illusions that give rise to misery and suffering
What is "fundamental darkness"?
500
Nichiren Shoshu asserts that these people occupy a higher religious status than that of lay believers
Who are priests?
500
Based on SGI President Ikeda’s lecture on “Letter to Misawa,” what does the devil king's “ten kinds of troops” represent?
What is The “ten kinds of troops” represent various earthly desires or delusions that arise from fundamental darkness to obstruct our Buddhist practice
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