How Did HBS Get Their Priesthood?
Q. How did HBS get their priesthood? Did the HBS at some point (in the 1900’s) merge with a sect that already had priests (just like the Kempon Hokke Shu was at one time united with the Nichiren Shu, or … Read More
Q. How did HBS get their priesthood? Did the HBS at some point (in the 1900’s) merge with a sect that already had priests (just like the Kempon Hokke Shu was at one time united with the Nichiren Shu, or … Read More
In Japanese culture there is a strong connection with ancestors that is manifested in many ways. In Shinto religion there is cult of ancestors and people pray both for and to people who passed away. Praying for them might be … Read More
Jōichi Ochi(Member of Myōgenji temple, Okayama Pref.) There are 7.7 billion people living on earth right now. How many people do we meet in our lifetime? Looking back, I realize many of the people I met made my life better … Read More
The term Jogyo (助行) originally means a practice that supports a principal practice called Shōgyo (正行). In Honmon Butsuryu Shu, when we say Ojogyō (お助行), it means the practice of chanting the Odaimoku not for ourselves but for other members. … Read More
Some time ago I received a query from Brazil about pocket Gohonzons, their shapes, and materials they can be made of, as well as qualifications required to draw and engrave a Gohonzon. So, I’ll just put all the answers here. … Read More
Q. Is there any particular spiritual transmission from high priests to the next generation priests? I guess there is no particular one, unlike the claims that the Nichiren Shoshu says (referring back to the “Apostolic” succession concept.). A. In HBS, … Read More
Coming down from the inner chamber, Koyu Shonin (the HBS head priest) and other priests chant the Odaimoku loudly to the Kaiko-kinen Gohonzon (the object of worship which Kaido Shonin himself drew commemorating the foundation of HBS) with lay followers … Read More
Buddhist priests of Honmon Butsuryū Shū 本門佛立宗 are called Kyōmu 教務. Kyō 教 in Kyōmu literally means “teaching” and Mu 務 means “attending to one’s work faithfully.” So, Kyōmu are priests who devote themselves to teaching people about the faith … Read More
I bring fullness and satisfaction to the world, like a rain that spreads its moisture everywhere. Eminent and lowly, superior and inferior, observers of precepts, violators of precepts, those fully endowed with proper demeanor, those not fully endowed, those of … Read More
In the threefold world, there is neither birth nor death, or going away nor coming forth, and there is no existing in this world and later entering extinction. Chapter 16 of The Lotus Sutra, The Life Span of the Buddha … Read More
This threefold world is all my domain, and the living beings in it are all my children. Chapter 3 of the Lotus Sutra, A Parable The Buddha said in the Lotus Sutra that every living being is a part of … Read More
Hurting others we hurt ourselvesThat is the law of the universe RacismInequalityMurder ViolenceCrueltyWar What are we doing?Let’s stop the destruction.The world needs us to unite. We are one – BuddhaWe are one – universeWe are one – life LOVE over … Read More
Yukie Morishita(Member of Myōshōji Temple in Kurashiki, Okayama Pref., Japan) The following are two stories that I would like to share with you. Stories of how I recovered from diseases, thanks to the HBS faith. The first is about a … Read More
Teruko Harada(member of Butsuryūji temple in Kobe, Hyogo Pref., Japan) I inherited HBS faith from my father and have been a follower all my life. Today I would like to tell you the stories of the two most wonderful blessings … Read More
From the last days of the Tokugawa Shogunate to the Meiji Restoration, Nissen Shōnin (Seifū Nagamatsu), the founder of Honmon Butusyū Shū, lived through ever‐changing, and turbulent times. It was also the days of the Cholera pandemic. And since there … Read More
Q. A friend of mine is trying to take the Bar Exam. I am thinking I should pray for him to perform well. What kind of prayer should I make? A. I would recommend inviting your friend to the temple … Read More