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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 026 Letter to Priest NichirÅ in Prison
Description: On the ninth day of the tenth month, 1271, on the eve of his departure for Sado Island, Nichiren Daishonin wrote this letter to Chikugo-bÅ NichirÅ, who was later to become one of his six senior disciples. NichirÅ and his father had converted to the Daishoninâs teachings in 1254, and NichirÅ had received the tonsure under the supervision of his uncle NisshÅ, also later to become one of the six senior disciples. At the time of the Tatsunokuchi Persecution in the ninth month of 1271, NichirÅ and several other priest-disciples were imprisoned in the custody of Yadoya Mitsunori, an official of the Kamakura governm...