Tag: Mount Sumeru

• The Needle on Sumeru’s Peak: An Analysis of Rarity and Merit in Nichiren Daishonin’s Shō Hokke Daimoku-shō

  

  I. Introduction: The Rarity of Encountering the Mystic Law A. Presentation of the Core Passage Within the corpus of writings attributed to the 13th-century Japanese Buddhist reformer Nichiren Daishonin, a particularly striking passage appears in his Treatise on Chanting the Great Title of the Lotus Sūtra (Shō Hokke Daimoku-shō). It presents a vivid, almost fantastical…

  William Altig

  May 1, 2025

  Nichiren

  Buddhist cosmology, chanting, daimoku, Enlightenment, faith, Gohonzon, Gosho, Gratitude, Latter Day of the Law, Lotus Sutra, Mahayana Buddhism, Mappō, Mount Sumeru, Mystic Law, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, Nichiren Buddhism, practice, Shakyamuni Buddha, Shō Hokke Daimoku-shō, study

• Chapter 7–The Celestial Journey

  

  Monks, the great Brahma angels in the vast realms of fifty hundred thousand myriads of spheres set out on a quest. They mounted their divine aerial cars, each carrying divine bags as large as Mount Sumeru, filled with celestial flowers. Journeying through the four quarters of the universe, they searched for the source of the…

  William Altig

  November 22, 2023

  Chapter 7, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

  Brahma angels, Buddhism, Celestial Assembly, Celestial Journey, Chapter 7, Cosmic Landscape, Divine Flowers, Divine Homage, Enlightenment Terrace, Lotus Sutra, Mahabhignagnanabhibhu, Mahayana Texts, Mount Sumeru, Mystical Universe, Religious Art., Spiritual Imagery, Spiritual Quest, Tathagata, Universal Exploration, Wheel of the Law