Shōshinkai

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The Shōshinkai ( Japanese 正 信 会 : dt. "Society of Correct Faith") is a group of lay believers and about 200 priests of the Nichiren Shōshū , which was founded in July 1980. This was preceded by serious differences between the Sōka Gakkai and the then high priest of the Nichiren-Shōshū Nittasu Hosoi in the 1970s . In addition to questions about the interpretation of the doctrine of the Nichiren Shōshū, there were also legal disputes with regard to the newly built main hall of the Taiseki-ji , the so-called Shōhondō . In the further course of these disputes already led to the exclusion of the Myōshinkō (later renamed Kenshōkai ).

The main reasons for the emergence of the Shōshinkai were on the one hand the non-recognition of the then new High Priest Nikken as Nittatsu's successor , on the other hand the group criticized the, in their opinion, too great influence of the Sōka Gakkai on the fortunes of the Nichiren-Shōshū. In the course of the exclusion of the Sōka Gakkai by the Nichiren Shōshū, one of their original reasons for origin also ceased.

The Shōshinkai founded a research facility, the Kofu Danjo ( Japanese 興 風 談 所 ), whose research results also met with recognition from other schools of Nichiren Buddhism .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fire in The Lotus , Daniel B. Montgomery, Mandala 1991, 1991, p. 200.

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