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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 072 The Problem to Be Pondered Night and Day
Description: This letter was written to Toki JĹnin, a learned and dedicated disciple who lived in ShimĹsa Province. In it Nichiren Daishonin stresses the extreme seriousness of the offense of slander and also the importance of embracing the supreme Buddhist teaching. The letter is dated simply the twenty-third day of the eighth month, and though it is generally thought to have been written in the first year of Kenji (1275) at Minobu, no firm conclusion has been reached in this regard. Other opinions are that the Daishonin wrote it in 1276 or even in 1273 while he was still on Sado Island.<...