Today at the temple I shared with our online viewers some of the many treasures of the temple. Among our treasures are many examples of Shakyo, sutra passages copied that were then donated to the temple for storage and prayers. The sutra passages range from Chapter II, III, XVI, and XXI. Also there are many sheets of Odaimoku written out with prayers for peace and health as well as good fortune. I spent the longest…
From October 15 – 17 I was visiting Niagara Falls Canada. I have already posted about my visit to the Pure Land temple of 10,000 Buddhas. Also I posted about my visit to the Underground Railroad Museum on the US side of the falls. In this post I’d like to share a little about Niagara Falls itself. The falls are the result of the Niagara River draining Lake Erie into Lake Ontario. There are three…
Yesterday I took the train from Syracuse, NY to Niagara Falls Canada for the express purpose of visiting a large temple located there. The temple is referred to as the 10,000 Buddha Temple although that is not the correct name. The correct name of the temple is the Namo Amitabh Buddhist Temple. The temple is a Chinese Pure Land temple. Since I first learned of the temple, almost three years ago, I had wanted to…
Mystical Buddha The Lotus Sutra is a unity, it is as Nichiren teaches a collection of individual characters each of which is a Buddha. When all these individual characters are strung together in unity it becomes the Lotus Sutra, it also becomes the name of the Eternal Buddha, or the mystical name of Buddha. The characters are finite and infinite at the same time. There are a definite required number of characters, not one less…
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