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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 001 On Attaining Buddhahood in This Lifetime
Description: This letter was written to Toki JĹnin in the seventh year of KenchĹ (1255), two years after Nichiren Daishonin established his teaching of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. At the time of this letter, the Daishonin was thirty-four years old and was living in Kamakura, the seat of the military government. Toki was a staunch follower of the Daishonin who lived in Wakamiya in ShimĹsa Province. He received some thirty letters, including Letter from Sado and one of the major treatises, The Object of Devotion for Observing the Mind. A retainer of Lord Chiba, the constable of ShimĹsa, Toki had become a follower of the Daishon...