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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 163 Roots of Good Fortune
Description: Nichiren Daishonin wrote this letter at Minobu in the last month of the fourth year of KĹan (1281) to the lay nun of Kubo, thanking her for the offerings that she had sent him. The lay nun was a widow who lived with her daughter in Kubo in Fuji District of Suruga Province, but little else is known about her. From the contents of the several letters addressed to her, she appears to have been a believer of pure faith who frequently sent offerings to the Daishonin.
In response to her gifts, the Daishonin compares m...