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The 4Th Anniv. of Dragon Palace Temple in Nagpur, India Celebrated by Rev Nichiren 139’ 03.12.12 10:42 AM ページ1 Published by the Nichiren Shu Headquarters & Kaigai Fukyo Koenkai No. 139 December 1, 2003 (1) The 4th Anniv. of Dragon Palace Temple in Nagpur, India Celebrated By Rev. Kanshin Mochida ment and the Nichiren Shu Order. The Ogawa Society just purchased The fourth anniversary of the 40 acres of land near the temple. founding of the Dragon Palace Tem- In the evening the temple was ple in Kamptee City, Nagpur, Maha- beautifully lit up with decoration rashtra State, India was held on Sat- lights hanging from its roof. The cer- urday, November 8, with more than emony lasted until 1:00 a.m. The 100,000 people visiting the temple. next morning there were many cul- The chanting of “Namu-Myoho- tural programs. Renge-Kyo” reverberated the entire There were lots of booths along temple when Rev. Nichiki Kato of the approach to the temple, and many Myohonji Temple, Kamakura, the people wore their best clothes to visit leader of the 14 Japanese delegates the temple. Rev. Gensho Watanabe, for the ceremony, led prayers. The one of the Japanese delegates said, schoolchildren of the temple prayed “The size of this celebration can be in the presence of thousands of peo- compared to the O-eshiki at the ple. In the middle of the ceremony, a Ikegami Honmonji Temple. I never special prayer service was performed knew that a festival this big was by Rev. Kyoya Tajima of Hompohji being held annually in Nichiren Shu Temple in Tokyo, who held a special overseas.” sword in his hand for a Kito blessing. Prior to the ceremony, the dele- Visitors to the Dragon Palace Temple surpassed 100,000 on the occa- After the prayers, gates held a brief sion of its fourth anniversary held on November 8 the delegates were purification ceremony “health” mattresses, was first intro- but also other “untouchables” to Bud- guided to the outside for the newly con- duced to Ms. Kumbhare in 1994 dhism. In many households in Nag- stage, where Rev. structed railway tunnel when a cigarette factory owned by pur, a picture of Dr. Ambedkar is Kato delivered a on the way to the tem- Ms. Kumbhare was on the brink of hung on the wall or enshrined on the message, stating “We ple from the city of bankruptcy. make-shift altar. People adore him as are committed to Kamptee. This tunnel To help save the factory from a bodhisattva. establish peace in the was constructed by the going bankrupt and save the three Atty. Dadasaheb Kumbhare, world by spreading state government with hundred workers from losing their father of Ms. Sulekha Kumbhare, was the Buddha’s teach- the support of the State jobs, Ms. Ogawa offered financial a devout follower of Dr. Ambedkar. ing and the Lotus Sulekha Kumbhare (left) and Mining Corporation. assistance to Ms. Kumbhare. Since Serving as a member of the Indian Sutra through the Noriko Ogawa (file photo) With the construction then deep friendship developed Parliament, he devoted himself for Dragon Palace Temple. of the tunnel, people can go to the between them, leading to the con- the improvement of society. “We are ready to extend our coop- Dragon Palace Temple without wait- struction of the huge Buddhist temple When he died at the age of 59, his eration to the temple and Ms. ing long at the railroad crossing. in Kamptee City. daughter, Ms. Sulekha Kumbhare, Sulekha Kumbhare, the President of The Dragon Palace Temple was Kamptee is located in Nagpur became a politician to accomplish the the Ogawa Society and one of the founded in 1999. The project was where in 1956, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar, tasks left by her father. founders of the temple, and Ms. promoted jointly by Ms. Sulekha who played a leading role in drafting Now Minister for Water Supply Noriko Ogawa.” Kumbhare, who was then the Mayor the Constitution of India, gathered and Sanitation of Maharashtra State, Ms. Kumbhare, also the current of Kamptee City where the temple is over 350,000 people and declared she runs a hospital, an orphanage, a Maharashtra State Minister for Water located, and Ms. Noriko Ogawa, a their conversion to Buddhism. kindergarten, and a students’ dormito- Supply and Sanitation, is planning to Japanese entrepreneur. Deeply touched by the principle of ry. She also operates elementary, junior expand the temple’s facilities with Ms. Ogawa, President of GEN- equality preached in Buddhism, Dr. high and senior high schools which she the cooperation of the state govern- SHO, a company in Tokyo selling Ambedkar converted not only himself inherited from her late father. Rev. Tamura Dispatched to Brazilian New Missionary By Rev. Kanshin Mochida October 23rd, and immediately and Rev. Shoyo Tamura rented an apartment for his office to support the Jojusan The installation ceremony Hokekyoji. His assignment is to of Rev. Shoyo Tamura as the research the possibility of estab- first minister of the Brazilian lishing missions throughout New Missionary was held at a South America, promoting the house near the Santa Cruz Jojusan Hokekyoji and cooper- Subway Station in Sao Paulo ating with the Emyoji Temple on October 26 with 18 mem- (Nambei Minobusan Betsuin). bers attending. The year 2004 is the 50th Rev. Tamura has five-year anniversary of our Brazilian Rev. Tamura takes the oath of missionary experience in Mission since Bishop Emyo office as the first minister of the U.S.A. at the Hawaii Nichiren Ishimoto, the founder of the Brazilian New Missionary Mission, Los Angeles Nichiren Emyoji Temple, was assigned to tion of Japanese immigrants, and cur- Buddhist Temple, Nichiren Rev. Nun Myoho Ishimoto and Rev. Tamura at Sao Paulo. The Emyoji is plan- rently the number of people who are Buddhist International Center Emyoji Temple, Sao Paulo ning to have the anniversary interested in Buddhism is growing. and Seattle Nichiren Buddhist New Missionary are about 20 in num- ceremony next June, and by that time, Rev. Tamura said, “With the coop- Church. He decided to take the ber, organizing a Sangha named Joju- Hokekyoji Sangha is going to rent a eration of those two Sanghas, I’d like assignment as the new missionary san Hokekyoji. They are right now new hall. Both Sanghas together with to carefully examine and analyze the after visiting Sao Paulo last June and renting a house in downtown Sao Rev. Tamura and Rev. Myoho Ishi- possibility of establishing missions receiving positive responses from Paulo and applying for the registra- moto of the Emyoji will celebrate the for the future Nichiren Shu in South believers. tion for a religious organization. memorable anniversary next year. America. Before that, I have to learn The believers of the Brazilian Rev. Tamura arrived in Brazil on South America has a large popula- Portuguese, though.” Nichiren 139’ 03.12.12 10:42 AM ページ2 (2) Nichiren Shu News From the Glossary O-ESHIKI of the Writings of Nichiren Shonin By Kyotsu Hori, Ph. D worlds he traveled through, whether they received a parti- The English Translation Committee of the cle or not, are smashed into Nichiren Shu Overseas Propagation Promotion particles of dust. Let one par- Association has so far been able to publish the Writ- ticle represent one kalpa ings of Nichiren Shonin, Doctrine 1 and 2, in Eng- (aeon), the number of kalpa lish by the University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, which have passed since I Hawaii. Each of them includes an extensive glos- (the Buddha) attained Bud- sary for the purpose of clarifying the characteristics dhahood is 100 trillion nayuta of Nichiren Shonin’s doctrine. asamkhya larger than the At the beginning, the Committee was reluctant number of the particles of the to include the glossary in our translation project due dust thus produced.” largely to the anticipated difficulty in translating Most people who read this very concise writings, which could easily be misun- explanation will probably derstood. Knowing its necessity, the Committee in find it impossible to follow. the end accepted the challenge. However, the fact After all, the numerical fig- remains that the glossary entries are mostly simple ures used are astronomical and brief needing explanations or additional infor- and numerical units such as mation. This is the reason why I am taking this nayuta, asamkhya and kalpa opportunity offered by the Nichiren Shu News to are only vaguely defined at discuss some of our glossary entries. best. Nevertheless, they undoubtedly overwhelm us to The Eternal Buddha Sakyamuni convince us that the life span First I would like to explain what is said under of the Eternal Buddha is the entry entitled “Attaining Enlightenment in the indeed eternal and beyond the eternal past (kuon jitsujo).” This entry states that imagination of us ordinary Sakyamuni Buddha did not attain enlightenment at people. O-esiki figures at Honmonji, Ikegami, Tokyo, 2003: 110 sets of Buddhagaya in India for the first time, but He has Nichiren Buddhist schol- “mando” (Oct. 12) and 400,000 visitors (Oct. 12–13) been enlightened since the eternal past. He who ars have used the term “500 wants to know how far back is the eternal past dust-particle kalpa” to mean how much time has authors of the Nichiren Shonin Zenshu, vol. 2 should read the 16th chapter of the Lotus Sutra, elapsed since Sakyamuni attained enlightenment in (Tokyo, Shunju-sha, 1996), for instance, try to “The Life Span of the Buddha.” The chapter vague- the remote past. It was coined from the “500 trillion amend the problem by inserting a numeral oku ly defines the time span as “immeasurable, bound- nayuta, asamkhya major world systems (a great (hundred million) between “500” and “dust-parti- less hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, hundred one-thousand worlds)” which were reduced to dust cle.” However, this practice has not been accepted thousands of nayuta of kalpa (aeons)” and tries to for the purpose of comparison between the number widely.
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