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Monday, April 14, 2014

Taisekeji should admit their error without delay [author unknown]

The original manuscript of the gosho "On The True Cause" 
does not exist.  Nichiko Shonin (Taisekiji HP)  compiled it 
based on a copy made by the 6th HP, Nichiji Shonin 
(Taisekiji), and other copies made and preserved at temples 
of other Nichiren Sects. (Fuji Shugaku Yoshu, Vol. 1, p.33). 
Despite the fact that Nichiko Shonin had to refer to copies 
of this Gosho held by other Nichiren sects, he seems to 
claim exclusive possession of them. 

The reason I bring up the above data is to bring up some 
points of altered Gosho.  In the NST News Special Issue from 
September 7, 1993 on page 147 (lines 4-9) read: 

"In short, Nichikan Shonin taught that the Buddhism of the 
Heritage of the Law means chanting Daimoku with faith in the 
Three Treasures....<omitted>.....and the successive High 
Priests (Treasure of the Priest).  According to Nichikan 
himself, this is the direct path to attaining enlightenment." 

However, in the Shodaihen, of the Toryu Gyoji Sho (chapter 
3), Nichikan Shonin states: 

"The Treasure of the Priest from time without beginning is 
the founding High Priest." (Rokkan Sho) 

The NST News deliberately altered Nichikan Shonin's 
definition of the Treasure of the Priest, seeking to make 
all High Priests of Taisekiji into objects of unquestioned 
reverence. 

Again from NST News Special Issue of Sept. 7, 1993 we read a 
passage from "On the True Cause" as documentary proof of the 
sole inheritance of the lifeblood by the High Priests of 
Taisekiji. The passage reads: 

"[The documents of] this heritage..and..the essential 
matters of the Gohonzon are documents of the transmission of 
the Law from Nichiren to the successive master (sic) of the 
seat of the Law.  They concern the Transmission bestowed...
at the Treasure Tower, the transmission of the Heritage of the 
Law exclusively from one to the next." (Fuji Shugaku Yoshu, Vol. 
1, P.8) 

Now, this passage is not the words of Nichiren or Nikko 
Shonin, it was added on later by an unknown person or 
priest.  The 59th High Priest Nichiko spent his life doing 
exhaustive research on the Gosho and its veracity, and said 
that the aforementioned passage in "On the True Cause" was 
added to this Gosho at a later date.   

The intention of NST in using this passage lies in its 
desire to insist that important Gosho, such as "On the True 
Cause" and other "secret" transmissions relating to the 
Gohonzon, such as Seven Documents of Inheritance about the 
Gohonzon have been transmitted only through successive High 
Priests of Taisekiji.   

Since all of Nichiren's Gosho and "secret teachings" have 
been published, no "secret teachings" exist that are known 
exclusively to the High Priest of Taisekiji, or Daisaku 
Ikeda for that matter. 

The passage in "On the True Cause" was deemed to have 
been added at a later date, and therefore does not constitute 
documentary proof of Taisekiji's view that only the High 
Priests of Taisekiji inherit the law of life inherent in the 
Gohonzon.   

Since this view cannot be attributed to either Nichiren or 
Nikko Shonin, Taisekiji and the Hokkekyo should admit their 
error without delay, shouldn't they? 

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