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Thursday, May 6, 2010

Nichiren Mandala Gohonzon # 47: Instant Eradication of Disease Honzon

This Mandala Gohonzon is dated March 16 1278 and is kept at Nakayama [中山] Hosen-in [法宣院] [Dharma Declaration Institute] of Chiba Prefecture [千葉県]. The "nickname" of the Mandala is 病即消滅本尊. That means something like 'sudden erasure & destruction of sickness honzon." Maybe the "Instant Healing of Disease Honzon?"


This refers to one of the inscriptions seen on the mandala.

"This sutra provides good medicine for the ills of the people of Jambudvipa. If a person who has an illness is able to hear this sutra, then his illness will be wiped out and he will know neither old age or death." from the Yakuo [Medicine King] Chapter of the LS. {Watson translation}


It appears that Nichiren did not designate a recipient for this one.

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4 comments:

  1. Mark PorterApril 7, 2011 at 7:56 AM

    Hey Robin, do you have any info on #8? It has 2 siddham.

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  2. Mr. Robin BeckApril 8, 2011 at 3:22 AM

    http://fraughtwithperil.com/rbeck/2009/04/11/ichinen-sanzen-gohonzon/

    http://fraughtwithperil.com/rbeck/2009/05/23/phrase-on-the-ichinen-sanzen-gohonzon/

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  3. Mr. Robin BeckApril 8, 2011 at 3:35 AM

    a.

    What makes the Ichinen Sanzen Mandara unique, is the inclusion of the siddham, or two esoteric sanskrit seed symbols, for the Buddha Mahavairochana (Dainichi). In Nichiren’s time, the eclectic-syncretic Jimon-Tendai and Shingon Schools, who ran the Buddhist temples at Kamakura Tsurugaoka Hachimaguji, viewed Shinto Kami as manifestations of Buddhist Divinities. The most important of these was the syntheses of the Sun Goddess Amaterasu Omikami or Tensho Daijin with Dainichi. This also relates to the Siddham symbols for Aizen and Fudo, which are on many of Nichiren’s Mandala Gohonzon.

    http://fraughtwithperil.com/rbeck/2006/02/09/esoteric-ichinen-sanzen-mandala/

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  4. AnonymousJuly 5, 2011 at 5:32 PM

    may I do my prayers at any mandara I wish?

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