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Gohonzon (御本尊) is a generic term for a venerated religious object in Japanese Buddhism.It may take the form of a scroll or statuary. The term gohonzon typically refers to the mainstream use of venerated objects within Nichiren Buddhism, referring to the calligraphic paper mandala inscribed by the 13th Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren to which devotional chanting is directed.
Honzon (本尊, "fundamental honored [one]"), sometimes referred to as a Gohonzon (ご本尊 or 御本尊), is the enshrined main image [1] or principal deity [2] in Japanese Buddhism. The buddha , bodhisattva , or mandala image is located in either a temple or a household butsudan .
The Dai Gohonzon of the High Sanctuary of the Essential Teachings, commonly known as the Dai Gohonzon (Japanese: 大 御 本 尊 The Supreme (Great) Gohonzon or Honmon—Kaidan—no—Dai—Gohonzon, Japanese: 本 門 戒 壇 の 大 御 本 尊) is a venerated mandala image inscribed with both Sanskrit and Chinese logographs on a median log trunk of Japanese camphorwood.
The Rin-metsu gohonzon of Nichiren, now claimed as the Shutei Gohonzon of Nichiren Shu [11] All fully ordained Nichiren Shū ministers are able to inscribe and consecrate mandalas, but in practice few of them do. They usually bestow a copy of a Nichiren inscribed mandala, called the Shutei Gohonzon, [11] upon their members.
On the high altar, the Shumidan, of the Hōandō is a Buddhist Stupa containing the ashes of Nichiren Daishonin (left), a grand Butsudan housing the Dai Gohonzon (center), and another stupa containing a statue of Nichiren Daishonin carved by Izumi Ajari Nippō Shōnin from the same camphorwood leftover plank that the Dai Gohonzon was inscribed ...
・ The Dai-Gohonzon, inscribed by Nichiren Daishonin on October 12, 1279 ・In terms of the Personification: Nichiren representing the Buddha of the Latter Day of the Law) // In terms of the Law: Nichiren's mandala. Kaidan ・Any place where one chants the Odaimoku ・The place where the Dai-Gohonzon will be enshrined at the time of Kosen-rufu
Another Gohonzon transcribed by him is the wooden Gohonzon enshrined at the Gokokuji Temple in Kamakura city in Kanagawa Prefecture which was transcribed into wood on 12 September 1968, then formally enshrined at this temple three years later on the 12 September 1971 for the 700th anniversary of Nichiren being nearly executed at Shichirigahama ...
Kempon Hokke Shū logo Kempon Hokke Shū Gohonzon. Kempon Hokke-shū (顕本法華宗) is a branch of Nichiren Buddhism based on the teachings of 13th-century Japanese monk Nichiren. It was founded by Nichijū in 1384. In Japan it has a membership of about 100,000 households [citation needed] and several lay members overseas. The international ...