Daisaku Ikeda's lectures on the writings of Nichiren Daishonin. According to Ikeda, the Gosho (the collection of Nichiren Daishonin's writings) "illustrates the means by which all can achieve enlightenment," the essential purpose of Buddhist practice. Thus, the author, in writing these lectures, intended to help all people strengthen their faith by cultivating "the two ways of practice and study." The volume presents thirteen letters, almost all commented on in full, except for two very long treatises, from which salient passages have been chosen.
GOSHO INCLUDED IN THE COLLECTION:
On the Unlined Robe
The Exile to Izu
The Opening of the Eyes
The One Essential Phrase
Letter to the Lay Nun of Ko
Letter to Oto's Mother
A Mother's Gift of a Robe
Letter of Condolence
Letters to Ueno-ama Gozen: The Gosho on Fine Sake - Reply to the Lay Nun, Ueno's Mother
The Unanimous Declaration of the Buddhas of the Three Existences
Condolences on a Deceased Husband (Reply to Myoho Bikuni)
Happiness in This World
