False rumor that SGI has a Nichiren inscribed Gohonzon
There is a rumor that the Gohonzon enshrined in their Japanese Headquarters, Hall of the Great Vow for Kosen Rufu, is a Nichiren inscribed Gohonzon. It is not. It is a Joju Gohonzon of their own fabrication.
Nichiren teaches regarding such auspicious claims:
"Regardless of what the Buddhist scriptures or the secular works may have to say about such an event, if in fact there were some entry in the daily records of the courtiers, the other families of the capital, or the priests of Mount Hiei saying that in the spring of the ninth year of Kōnin, in such and such a month, on such and such a day, at such and such an hour of the night the sun appeared, then we might perhaps believe it. [But no such record exists.]"
There are no independent reports or records of SGI possessing a Nichiren Gohonzon. Certainly, their "Nichiren" gohonzon does not appear in the Gohonzon Shu and all of these Gohonzons are accounted for and we know how SGI lies just about everything.
Nichiren teaches regarding such auspicious claims:
ReplyDelete"Regardless of what the Buddhist scriptures or the secular works may have to say about such an event, if in fact there were some entry in the daily records of the courtiers, the other families of the capital, or the priests of Mount Hiei saying that in the spring of the ninth year of Kōnin, in such and such a month, on such and such a day, at such and such an hour of the night the sun appeared, then we might perhaps believe it. [But no such record exists.]"
There are no independent reports or records of SGI possessing a Nichiren Gohonzon. Certainly, their "Nichiren" gohonzon does not appear in the Gohonzon Shu and all of these Gohonzons are accounted for and we know how SGI lies just about everything.