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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 054 The Unity of Husband and Wife
Description: In the first month of the twelfth year of Bunâei (1275), Nichigen-nyo, the wife of ShijĹ Kingo, informed Nichiren Daishonin that she had turned p.465thirty-three, an age thought to be unlucky for women, and sent offerings. This letter, dated the twenty-seventh day of the same month, is the Daishoninâs reply. In response to Nichigen-nyoâs apprehensions, he assures her that a woman who embraces the Lotus Sutra surpasses all other people, and that, if her faith is strong, she will certainly be protected by the Buddhas and Buddhist gods.
The Daishonin praises ShijŠKingo as...