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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 082 The Bow and Arrow
Description: NichirenĀ DaishoninĀ wrote this letter to theĀ lay nunĀ Toki in the third month of the second year of Kenji (1276)Ā andĀ entrusted its delivery to her husband, Toki JÅnin, who was visiting Minobu at the time.
Tokiās mother had passed away toward the end of the second month of the year. In the third month, Toki carried her ashes from his home in Wakamiya, ShimÅsa Province, to distant Minobu, where a memorial service was performed for her. From a letter theĀ DaishoninĀ sent to Toki one year earlier, in 1275, it is clear that T...