"Earlier, you quoted a passage from the Daibontenno Mombutsu Ketsugi Sutra to prove your contention that Zen is 'a separate transmission outside the sutras.' But by quoting a sutra passage you were already contradicting your own assertion. Moreover, this sutra represents the provisional teachings, and, in addition, it is not listed either in the K'ai-yuan or the Chen-yuan era catalogues of Buddhist works. Thus we see that it is a work unlisted in the catalogues and a provisional teaching as well. Hence the scholars of our time do not refer to it;" -- Nichiren Daishonin
Likewise, those writings of Nichiren not found in the Rokunai or Rokugai catalogs* can not be used to prove anything.
*The Rokunai Gosho catalog was collated by Toki Jonin shortly after the Daishonin's death and the Rokugai by various disciples within a hundred years of his death. Unfortunately there are some forgeries even in these early collections of writings,
Hello my name is Ariel Rodriguez, where can I read authentic goshos?
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DeleteI met the Lotus Sutra in 1985
HERE ARIEL....WE FOLLOW THE THE TEACHER OF THE LOTUS SUTRA AND HIS TEACHER AND MESSENGER FOR THE LATTER DAY NICHIREN.
ReplyDeleteTHERE ARE NO SECTS LIKE THE SHU, NICHIREN SHOSHU OR THE SGI THAT FOLLOW THE LAW AND NOT THE PERSON. WECOME AND CHEERS.
U FOUND THE RIGHT PLACE.
How do we know what Nichiren actually believed and taught?
ReplyDeleteThere are certain approaches that can aid one: Is it in Nichiren's hand, signed and stamped?; are they in one or the other of the earliest collections of Gosho?; congruence with the content and principles espoused with respect to the period in which Nichiren taught [the stage of development of Nichiren's teachings]; are there citations, principles, or events in the Gosho from a time after Nichiren's death?; comparing content of Gosho to the Five Major Works and the entire body of authenticated [in Nichiren's hand] works; computer or reasoned analysis of writing style and the words contained in the Gosho [again, comparing Gosho written in Nichiren's hand to the Gosho in question]; and the approach of textual parsimony [limiting ourselves to Gosho in Nichiren's hand] and weighing Gosho according to profundity and the preponderance of established concepts.