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本門本尊

Pronunciations

Basic Meaning: originally venerated one

Senses:

  • The special honored one of the Nichiren sect, Svādi-devatā, the Supreme Being, whose maṇḍala is considered as the symbol of the Buddha as infinite, eternal, universal. The Nichiren sect has a meditation 本門事觀 on the universality of the Buddha and the unity in the diversity of all his phenomena, the whole truth being embodied in the Lotus Sutra, and in its title of five words, 妙法蓮華經 Wonderful-Dharma Lotus-Flower Sūtra, which are considered to be the embodiment of the eternal, universal Buddha. Their repetition preceded by 南無 Namah is equivalent to the 歸命 of other Buddhists. [Charles Muller; source(s): Soothill]
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    [Dictionary References]

    Bukkyō jiten (Ui) 988

    Japanese-English Buddhist Dictionary (Daitō shuppansha) 113b/124

    Bukkyōgo daijiten (Nakamura) 1266c

    Fo Guang Dictionary 1962

    Ding Fubao

    Bukkyō daijiten (Mochizuki) (v.1-6)1609c

    Bukkyō daijiten (Oda) 1625-2

    (Soothill's) Dictionary of Chinese Buddhist Terms 190

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    Entry created: 2002-03-12

    Updated: 2007-12-16