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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 004 The Izu Exile
Description: In the eighth month of 1260, infuriated by Nichiren Daishoninâs refutation of the Pure Land school in his On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land, a group of Nembutsu followers attacked his dwelling at Nagoe in Kamakura. The Daishonin narrowly escaped and went to the home of his loyal disciple Toki JĹnin in ShimĹsa Province. In the spring of 1261, however, he returned to Kamakura and resumed his propagation efforts.
On the twelfth day of the fifth month, 1261, without any official investigation, the government sentenced the Daishonin to exile in the Izu Peni...