Daisaku Ikeda lectures on the writings of Nichiren Daishonin. According to Ikeda's statement, the Gosho (the set of Nichiren Daishonin's writings) "illustrates the means by which everyone can attain enlightenment," the essential goal of Buddhist practice. Thus the author, in writing these lessons, intended to help all people strengthen their faith by cultivating "the two paths of practice and study." This volume presents thirteen letters, almost all of which are fully annotated, except in the case of two very long treatises, from which salient passages have been selected.
GOSHO CONTAINED IN THE COLLECTION:
On the unlined robe
The exile of Izu
The opening of the eyes
The one essential sentence
Letter to the lay nun of Ko
Letter to the mother of Oto
Gift of a robe from a mother
Letter of condolence
Letters to Ueno-ama Gozen: Gosho of Fine Sake - Response to Lay Nun, Mother of Ueno
The Buddhas' unanimous declaration of the three existences
Condolences a deceased husband (Response to Myoho Bikuni)
Happiness in this world
