Tag: Self-Immolation

• 5 Ancient Buddhist Ideas That Radically Redefine ‘The Perfect Offering’

  

  Introduction: What Does It Mean to Give Everything? What does it truly mean to dedicate yourself to a cause? When we think of ultimate sacrifice, we often imagine a single, heroic act that costs the giver everything. But what if the greatest offering isn’t a final, spectacular gesture, but a continuous way of living? This…

  William Altig

  October 9, 2025

  Chapter 23, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

  daimoku, Embodied Resilience, Gladly-Seen-By-All-Beings Bodhisattva, Gratitude, Ichinen Sanzen, Karmic Transformation, kosen-rufu, Latter Day of the Law (Mappō), Lotus Sūtra, Medicine-King Bodhisattva, Myōhō (Wonderful Dharma), Nam-myōhō-renge-kyō, Nichiren Buddhism, Offering in Actuality, Offering in Principle, Perfect Offering, Persecution, Physical Sacrifice, Self-Immolation, Shikidoku (Reading with the Body), Sokushin Jōbutsu (Attaining Buddhahood in This Very Body), Soteriology, Suffering