The Oral Transmission of the Meaning

(J. Ongi Kuden)

 

Attributed to Nichiren as oral teachings given to his disciple Nikko. Some consider the Ongi Kuden a later compilation.

The Ongi Kuden offers commentary on passages of The Lotus Sutra from the perspective of Nichiren's Buddhism, and refer frequenly to the commentaries of Chih-I, Kuang-Ting and Chan-Jan.

These translations of text from the Ongi Kuden offer another dimension of perspective on the Sutra's meaning.

From Chapter Two on Ways & Means

  1. On Ways & Means
     
  2. On "The wisdom of the Buddhas is very deep and without measure, the door to this wisdom..."

From Chapter Sixteen on Measuring the Life of The One That Has Come

  1. On 'Nam- Myoho Renge Kyo' and Measuring the Life of The One That Has Come - Chapter Sixteen

From Chapter Twenty-Five on The Universal Door of the Bodhisattva Observing the Sounds of the World

  1. On the Bodhisattva Inexhaustible Will
     
  2. On the Wonder of the Bodhisattva Observing the Sounds of the World
     
  3. In Thought After Thought One Mustn't Bear Doubts
     
  4. The Two Things That Are Sought and Prayed For
     
  5. The Thirty Three Lives

 

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