Our sect name, Honmon Butsuryu Shu (本門佛立宗), was originally named by Nichiren Shonin and presented to the world by Nissen Shonin. The name can be found clearly in Nichiren Shonin’s treatises: You should know that I, Nichiren established the Hokke … Read More
Yūseiji, the head temple of Honmon Butsuryū Shū, is the oldest temple of all Nichiren Buddhism sects in the Kansai region (south-western half of Japan, including Osaka, Kyoto, and Kobe). Originally, it was called Seiryu Zushi (the “green willow shrine”) … Read More
Nichiren Shōnin 日蓮聖人 was born in a fisherman family in Kominato on the Bōsō peninsula, present Chiba prefecture, on February 16th, 1222 (the 16th of the 2nd month of the 4th year of Jōkyū era). It is said that on … Read More
Nichiryu Shonin was born as the son of Hisanori MOMOI, a samurai and Ume no kami (Captain of Umaryo, Right Division of Bureau of Horses) and Tomiko on October 14, 1385 (the fourteenth of the tenth month of the second … Read More
Nissen Shonin (Seifu Nagamatsu) was born into the OOJI, a merchant family in Muro-machi, Takoyakushi-dori, Kyoto city at the end of the EDO period, in 1817 (the fourteenth year of Bunka era). He was naturally talented in art and literature, … Read More