"Heresy" means to personally choose a particular belief in opposition to some
previously established orthodox belief. "Heterodoxy" is simply to choose all on
one's own without regard to orthodoxy.
Hsuan Hua was observing Chinese Buddhist monastic vinaya. Unless you were a
monk in full possession of the pratimoksha vows neither you nor he could be in
heretical antipathy to the other's practice.
As far as differences and separations, you began your posted comments with
Buddhist versus Hindu so you edged yourself out of discussing them in terms
that were reflective of mutuality. "Tathata" is Sanskrit for "thusness.
"Entity" is Latin for "ens" - a being. These are well established terms without
a lot of mystery to them. "Dai" means "Great" as in the Dai of Dainichi or the
"Maha" in mahayana and mahamudra. Gohonzon is an object of veneration.
You apparently venerate the proclamation that the Lotus Sutra and Nichiren
are the same and in the same manner that Dharma and Buddha are sometimes
worshiped as the same.
This means you are probably here to proselytize us at FFL for SGI.
yifuxero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
---You're looking at differences and separations. The Gohonzon
integrates mutually agreeable M-fields and tends to demolish those
getting in the way. True, Hsuan Hua didn't approve of the Gohonzon
which I showed him once. Nichiren's Buddhism was heretical to him.
However, his habit of eating only once per day before noon is
heretical to me since I have low blood sugar and have to eat
continually throughout the day. I had such pre-noon meals with him
on a number of occasions.
In [email protected], billy jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Don't know much about Nichiren. Dai Gohonzon sounds like a Japanese
description of Kegon's "riji-muge" (interpenetration and mutual
identity between particulars in Indra's net).
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