Nichiren Buddhism

was a Japanese Buddhist monk and philosopher of the Kamakura period. His teachings form the basis of Nichiren Buddhism, a unique branch of Japanese Mahayana Buddhism based on the Lotus Sutra.

Mahayana sutra

Japanese Buddhist religious movement

branch of Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese monk Nichiren

Mahāyāna sūtra that uses the backdrop of the Buddha's final nirvana to describe the undying and eternal nature of the Buddha and the buddha-nature within all living beings

thumb|200px|right|Honnō-ji main gate thumb|200px|right|Honnō-ji main hall

general in the Imperial Japanese Army (1889-1949)

university

thumb|150px|The official logo of Nichiren Shu, a family crest adopted in the 16th century from the "Li" Samurai clan as the Tachibana (Mandarin Orange Flower), who became devotees during the Edo period

Japanese Buddhist mantra

Japanese new religious movement founded in 1938, focused around the Lotus Sutra and ancestor veneration

thumb|Prabhūtaratna and Shakyamuni in the jeweled stupa; stele, dated 518 CE, Northern Wei. [[Guimet Museum]] Prabhūtaratna (Skt: प्रभूतरत्न; Traditional Chinese: 多寶如来 or 多寶佛; Simplified Chinese: 多宝如来 or 多宝佛; pinyin: Duōbǎo Rúlái or Duōbǎo Fó; Japanese romaji: Tahō Nyorai or Tahō Butsu), translated as Abundant Treasures or Many Treasures, is the Buddha who appears and verifies Shakyamuni's teachings in the Lotus Sutra and the Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra.

Buddhist cosmology

Japanese Buddhist monk

, often referred to as just Nipponzan Myohoji or the Japan Buddha Sangha, is a Japanese new religious movement and activist group founded in 1917 by Nichidatsu Fujii, emerging from Nichiren Buddhism. "Nipponzan Myōhōji is a small Nichiren Buddhist order of about 1500 persons, including both monastics and lay persons." The community reveres the Lotus Sutra as the highest expression of the Buddhist message.

thumb|A inscribed by Nichiren just before his death in 1280. The central logographs depict the official title of the [[Lotus Sūtra.]]

private university in Aliso Viejo, California

Japanese activist

Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra associated with the Threefold Lotus Sutra

Buddhist scholar

, or Reiyūkai Shakaden, is a Japanese Buddhist new religious movement founded in 1919 by Kakutarō Kubo (1892–1944) and Kimi Kotani (1901–1971). It is a lay organization (there are no priests) inspired by Nichiren Buddhism, but not affiliated to any particular sect.

Myōken (, ; Chinese: 妙見菩薩 (Traditional) / 妙见菩萨 (Simplified), ; Japanese: 妙見菩薩, Myōken Bosatsu), also known as Sonjō-Ō (尊星王, "Venerable Star King", also Sonsei-Ō or Sonshō-Ō), is a Buddhist deification of the North Star worshiped mainly in the Shingon, Tendai and Nichiren schools of Japanese Buddhism.

thumb|Kokuchūkai Headquarters The is a lay-oriented Nichiren Buddhist group. It was founded by Tanaka Chigaku in 1880 as and renamed in 1884 before adopting its current name in 1914.

Sadāparibhūta Bodhisattva, Never Disparaging Bodhisattva, (Ch: 常不輕菩薩 cháng bù qīng púsà; Jp: Jōfukyō Bosatsu) appears in Lotus Sutra Chapter 20 which describes the practices of Bodhisattva Never Disparaging, who lived in the Middle Period of the Law (Ch: 像法 xiàng fă) of the Buddha Awesome Sound King (Ch: 威音王如來 Wēi yīn wáng rúlái). He persevered in the face of persecution for the sake of the correct teaching, and finally attained Buddhahood. Bodhisattva Never Disparaging was Shakyamuni Buddha in one of his past lifetimes.

Shakubuku is a term that originates in the Chinese version of the Buddhist text, Śrīmālādevī Siṃhanāda Sūtra.

is the nationalistic interpretation of the teachings of Nichiren. The most well-known representatives of this form of Nichiren Buddhism are Nissho Inoue, Tanaka Chigaku, and Honda Nisshō, who construed Nichiren's teachings according to the notion of Kokutai. It was especially Chigaku who "made innovative use of print media to disseminate his message" and is therefore regarded to have influenced Nichiren-based Japanese new religions in terms of methods of propagation.

Sect of Nichiren Buddhism

Nitchō (日頂, 1252 – April 19, 1317), also known as Niccho or Iyo-bo, was a Buddhist disciple of Nichiren who helped founding Ikegami Honmon-ji and Hongaku-ji.

Mahāyāna Buddhist sutra associated with the Threefold Lotus Sutra

Viśiṣṭacāritra (; also known as Superior Practice) is a bodhisattva mentioned in the 15th, 21st, and 22nd chapters of the Lotus Sutra. He is one of the four great perfected bodhisattvas who attends Gautama Buddha and protects the Lotus Sutra and its devotees. The other three are Anantacaritra, Visuddhacaritra, and Supratisthitacaritra; together they make up the four great primarily evolved bodhisattvas. Viśiṣṭacāritra is also believed to represent the "true self" characteristic of buddhahood, which is the selflessness of Nirvana.

3 divisions of time after Buddha's death: Former Day, lasting 1000 or 500 years, when the Dharma is upheld; Middle Day, lasting 1000 or 500 years, when a semblance of the Dharma remains; Latter Day, lasting 10000 years, when the Dharma declines

was a Buddhist disciple of Nichiren and the uncle of Nichirō. He was the only disciple who was actually older than Nichiren himself.

branch of Nichiren Buddhism

according to the Lotus Sutra, Gautama Buddha as a transcendent entity who has in fact attained enlightenment eons ago

Mahayana doctrine unique to the Buddhist schools of Tiantai, Tendai, and Nichiren

Minbu Nikō (民部日向, 1253–1314) was a Buddhist disciple of Nichiren. He took over Kuon-ji after Nichiren's death, and can thus be considered one of the founders of Nichiren-shū. He was also put in charge of Mount Minobu after Nikkō left in 1288.

Noh play

compilation of 3 sutras: Innumerable Meanings Sutra (無量義經), Lotus Sutra (妙法蓮華經), Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra (普賢經)