The Baha'i Studies Listserv On 4/17/2012 11:56 AM, Stephen Gray wrote: > these five characters to Maitreya, Medicine King, or the others of > their group. Instead he summoned forth the bodhisattvas....from the > great earth of Tranquil Light and transferred the five characters to > them”.^[6] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maitreya#cite_note-5> In view > of Nichiren Buddhism, each person embodies the character of “the > Maitreya” because Maitreya is a metaphor for the function of > compassion : “The name Maitreya means ‘Compassionate One’ and > designates the Votaries of the Lotus Sutra
Yes. They believe that anyone can become a bodhisattva by chanting the title (daimoku) of the Lotus Sutra. I wrote about them here: For Nichiren Buddhists <http://links.religionsnet.com/nichiren.html>, the Daimoku or O-daimoku (Japanese for “title of the Lotus Sūtra”) is Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō <http://www.markfoster.net/struc/tech/nam.html>, in the Nichiren-shō-shū <http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/nichirenshoshu.pdf> and Sōka-gokkai <http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/sokagakkai.pdf> Buddhist organizations, and Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō <http://www.markfoster.net/struc/tech/namu.html>, in Nichiren-shū <http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/nichirenshu.pdf>, Reiyūkai <http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/reiyukai.pdf>, and Risshō Kōsei-kai <http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/rkk5.pdf> Buddhism. A simple translation of this mantrā (Sanskrit for “mind liberation”), from the Japanese, is “devotion to the mystic law of the Lotus Sūtra <http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/lotus_sutra.pdf>.” http://heartfulness.bahaifaith.info/ --- Mark A. Foster, Ph.D., sociology of religion, theory, and clinical sociology Portal: www.markfoster.net * Critical realism: www.structurization.com Two books: www.bahaifaith.info * Clinical: www.fosterservices.com __________________________________________________ You are subscribed to Baha'i Studies as: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe: send a blank email to mailto:leave-643428-27401.54f46e81b66496c9909bcdc2f7987...@list.jccc.edu Subscribe: send subscribe bahai-st in the message body to [email protected] Or subscribe: http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/all_forums/subscribe?name=bahai-st Baha'i Studies is available through the following: Mail - mailto:[email protected] Web - http://list.jccc.edu:8080/read/?forum=bahai-st News (on-campus only) - news://list.jccc.edu/bahai-st Old Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] New Public - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
