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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 035 Earthly Desires Are Enlightenment
Description: In the fourth month of the ninth year of Bunâei (1272), ShijĹ Kingo traveled from Kamakura to Sado Island to visit Nichiren Daishonin. Kingo was a samurai who served the Ema family, a branch of the ruling HĹjĹ clan. The journey to Sado was a long, arduous one, involving a boat trip across the Sea of Japan, and required that he absent himself from his duties in Kamakura for more than a month.
In the fifth month of the same year, soon after ShijŠKingo returned to Kamakura, Nichiren Daishonin sent him this letter. It...