Nikkō (priest)

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Nikkō ( Japanese 日 興 ; * 1246 ; † 1333 ), in which Nichiren Shoshu , Sōka Gakkai and Nichiren Shu also called Byakuren Ajari Nikkō Shonin or Nikkō Shonin , was one of the six older students of Nichiren and is considered the founder of the Fuji School / Line from which the Nichiren Shoshu later developed. His full Buddhist name was Hawaki-bō Byakuren Ajari Nikkō ( Japanese 日 興 伯 耆 房 白蓮 阿闍梨 日 興 ).

Nikkō's grave

Nikko was at the center of the first disputes that occurred among his students after Nichiren's death. Because of these disputes, he left the Kuon-ji Temple and, with the support of the land manager Najo Tokimitsu, founded the Taiseki-ji Temple, which is now the main temple of the Nichiren Shoshu. Nikkō was together with Nitchō in 1298 also the founder of the Kitayama Honmon-ji Temple (not to be confused with the Ikegami Honmonji in today's Tokyo, which was founded shortly before his death by Nichiren at the request of Ikegami Munenaka) and the associated seminary in Omosu. Nikko spent the rest of his life here. Nikkō's tomb is located on this temple, which he founded after Taiseki-ji left, today officially Fujisan Honmon-ji (冨 士 山 本 門寺 根源), Kitayama, Fujinomiya, Prf. Shizuoka. The grave with the stupa for Nikkō 日 興, year of death 1333, is listed on the site plan under (1). This Honmon-ji in Kitayama is now a temple of the Nichiren Shu .

According to the doctrine of the Nichiren Shoshu, Nichiren Nikkō determined as his direct successor at Kuon-ji . The documents that are supposed to prove this, however, are considered controversial and are referred to by other schools of Nichiren Buddhism as fakes. There is no scientific study on this.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fire in The Lotus, Daniel B. Montgomery, Mandala 1991, ISBN 1-85274-091-4 , pp. 147 ff.
  2. ^ A Dictionary of Buddhist Terms and Concepts, Nichiren Shoshu International Center, ISBN 4-88872-014-2 , page: 310
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nichirenscoffeehouse.net
  4. ↑ Nichiren Shu: Honmonji. Accessed August 27, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Homepage of the temple. Retrieved August 15, 2019 (jp).
  6. ↑ Daniel B. Montgomery, Fire in the Lotos , 169
personal data
SURNAME Nikko
BRIEF DESCRIPTION japanese monk
DATE OF BIRTH 1246
DATE OF DEATH 1333