The volume contains 234 gosho, never published in Italy except for some fragments in President Ikeda's guides or lectures, or some excerpts in Buddhism and Society. With the release of this volume, the Italian translation of the Nichiren Daishonin Gosho Zenshu is almost complete (only the Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings and some other transcriptions of Nichiren Daishonin's oral teachings, which are currently being studied and revised in Japan, are missing).
This volume contains the last 4 missing treatises (On Reciting the Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra, Choosing the Heart of the Lotus Sutra, Letter to Shimoyama, and Questions and Answers on the Object of Worship) which, together with the 6 published in Volume 1 (On Establishing the Correct Teaching for the Peace of the Land, The Opening of the Eyes, The Object of Worship for Observing the Mind, On Repaying Debts of Gratitude, and On the Four Stages of Faith and the Five Stages of Practice), constitute the ten major works of Nichiren Daishonin, as designated by his successor Nikko Shonin.
This second volume also contains many other important works, for example: a series of writings in which Nichiren elaborates in detail on the principle of three thousand realms in a single moment of life (Jap. ichinen sanzen), and other famous writings, such as On Protecting the Country, The Unanimous Declaration of the Buddhas of the Three Existences on the Classification of the Teachings and Which of These Should Be Abandoned and Which Should Be Adopted, and The Oral Transmission Regarding the Enlightenment of Plants. The volume also contains various diagrams and charts that the Daishonin used to instruct his disciples on various Buddhist teachings and an inexhaustible series of insights and answers to every possible doubt or question from practitioners of all eras. The translation was done from the English edition, which, in addition to being the official SGI edition, is also currently the most updated.
