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Podcast: Gosho Reading (Nichiren Buddhism)
Episode: 032 Letter from Sado
Description: This letter was written on the twentieth day of the third month, 1272, some five months after Nichiren Daishonin had arrived on the island of Sado to begin his exile there. He addressed it to Toki JĹnin, a samurai serving as a leading retainer to Lord Chiba, the constable of ShimĹsa Province, to SaburĹ Saemon (ShijĹ Kingo) in Kamakura, and to other staunch followers.Nichiren Daishonin had been banished on the tenth day of the tenth month, 1271. Charges of treason had been brought against him by RyĹkan, the chief priest of Gokuraku-ji temple in Ka...