Hokkekō
As Hokkekō ( Japanese 法 華 講 ) or Hokkekō Rengōkai , the community of lay believers of the Nichiren Shōshū is referred to. The term Hokke refers to the Lotus Sutra ( Hokke-kyō or Myōhōrenge-kyō ), with the addition kō , Hokkekō translates as "lay group of the lotus school". This designation leads the Nichiren-Shōshū back to the term Hokkekōshū ( 法 華 講 衆 ), with which Nichiren is said to have referred to his lay followers.
The Hokkekō communities are mostly assigned to a local temple of the Nichiren Shōshū (inside and outside of Japan). The individual groups are rather loosely connected to each other, with the Hokkekō Rengōkai being a kind of umbrella organization for all lay believers of this school of Nichiren Buddhism and having its headquarters at Taiseki-ji , the main temple of the Nichiren-Shōshū.
The Hokkekō Rengōkai was founded in 1962 and after the then largest lay group of the Nichiren-Shōshū, the Sōka Gakkai , lost their status as one of the lay organizations of the Nichiren-Shōshū in 1991 and 1997, the Hokkekō Rengōkai booked in the 1990s Years for their part.
Individual evidence
- ^ Levi McLaughlin, Handbook of Contemporary Japanese Religions (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion), Inken Prohl and Jon Nelson (ed.); "The Culture Movement and the Amplification of Ikeda's Authority", Brill Academic Pub, 2012, ISBN 978-9004234352 , page 299