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• 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