Maybe th one that executed with enough power called it off to not make him a martyr an create an even more zealot religious group. When killing him would make that likely worse?! Just an idea.
Nichiren was great. He repackaged the best of the teachings of Tendai and Shingon Buddhism into something that regular people can actually hope to practice and gain benefit and understanding from. He was a great follower of Shakyamuni Buddha. It is no accident that Nichiren Buddhism has spread worldwide, even if Soka Gakkai International, the organization that has largely done so, is extremely questionable. Nichiren-shu, the traditional and largest Japanese Nichiren order, is wonderful and moderate, not militant or prosyletizing, and has locations in the USA.
I love this video I'd like to add one thing to Nichiren's story: Nichiren really loved his mother, but in the period it was declared that women can't become buddhas (unless they became fully ordained nuns, which was hard to achieve), so Nichiren tried to prove, ordinary women can attain buddhahood, too. The XII. Chapter of the Lotus Sutra is about an 8-year-old girl who became a buddha after he offered a jewel to Manjusri bodhisattva, and because of this, Nichiren stated this Sutra is the one that has to be followed.
@@fantasyshadows3207 Exile simply means banishment from their home country. Not persecution or execution. Authorities were probably fearful of accidentally making him a martyr.
My mom and dad are Buddhists and they follow the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism. Im going to show them your video. I wonder if they will like it, but I did enjoy it myself.
@@warriordinag3921 My parents thought the video was amusing (they liked the animations) but the video was incorrect on a few things such as Nichiren's personality. According to them, Nichiren was not aggressive against the other schools of Buddhism. He stuck to his own teachings of peace. Since his teachings were different, the other schools didn't like him and he was persecuted and exiled a few times. However, he accepted any suffering that came his way and did not threaten nor lash out at others.
@@EternitysSlave That’s funny because his sentiments towards other sects (as described here) were the one thing I disagreed with on a surface glance. I happened to share similar religious discretion. Now I wanna look into it. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, that explains why it was the land of exile for so many people. I have never visited the island, but my husband stayed there for a short Japanese drum course long time ago. Sado-ga-shima has been the headquarters of Kodo.
He was release after 3 years because of his faith, he escaped death because he chanted night and day. I am a Nichiren follower/ practitioner. I love this video!
Man I would really like to hear more about religious history in Japan. I wonder if the controversial Tachikawa sect of Buddhism would be covered someday? I heard that it's a kind of Buddhist sex cult that was founded in he 12th century. I would love to learn more about them, and how their practices was considered very heretical in their time.
Nichiren "Other Buddhist monks are wrong, they distort the meaning of Buddhism and should be shamed, persecuted and killed!" Nichiren: Gets shamed, persecuted, and killed. Nichiren "Wait, that's illegal."
I just love your videos 😍 I also loved your southern accent, it made me chuckle. Please keep making content as I find you hilariously entertaining and deeply informative. Luv ya Lin 😘
dude same. i went to university after coming from the middle of nowhere in a different part of the country and while pretty much no one pointed it out, the implicit pressure to sound “proper” to be worth listening to is annoying af
I was raised Buddhist, Nichiren Dishonan specifically in California. There were many followers in 70s, questioning the status quo. I appreciate your knowledge about his life. It really does shed light as to why Americans were so fanatical and cult like with his teachings.
Linfamy~ I love your videos so so much. I love the formula, I love the execution, I love your sense of humor, I love the charming graphics, it's all so good. 😍 thankyou for doing your thing
Thanks For this! I just want to add that there are many different branches of Nichiren Buddhism. It's true that there was a branch of Nichiren Buddhism in world war II that propagandized for Japan's military conquests and worshiped the Emperor. However, the SGI (Soka Gakkai International), which was the lay organization of Nichiren Buddhism, did NOT see the Emperor this way. The SGI was very, very anti-war, and did NOT WORSHIP THE EMPORER!....so their leaders were put in jail and starved to death.
SGI is not recognized by Nirchiren and Nirchiren shoshū schools, I've had temples with messages telling people to turn in their Gohanzu from SGI to get a an authentic.
The supernova at totsonuki beach is vela jr and appeared at the exact moment they were to be head him at around 448 am for 100 plus seconds , look it up .
@@MrGksarathyI don't know, something tells me he wouldn't be living in a mansion or stealing money out of his followers. Though, he would definitely start a holy war for sure
@@seeleunit2000 I feel he might not own one himself, but his wealthy freak followers might house him in mansions and the like as "donations". The upper classes may not have liked him in his day, but the religious right here and in Japan would absolutely embrace him, and he might have sold out.
I feel like a lot of people born into poverty or just generally unfair circumstances often sabotage themselves out of sheer discomfort with things going well for them. When all you know is misery, happiness can be a very scary thing. Either that or Nichiren was just an insane contrarian.
@@Linfamy What I am saying is that the man had a hard life from the get-go and he was often looked down upon even before he started this branch of Buddhism and poverty/people looking down their noses at you has a way of enforcing negative self image, which after a while becomes a source of comfort. Basically, a case of "better the devil you know than the one you don't." This isn't to say that he was a Groveler (he obviously wasn't,) just that maybe he had a romantic notion of the long-suffering hero laying down his life for the greater good...that is until he faced execution and it became too real.
I think i might know a littlw bit abt the "ball of light". My grandmother follows and forces nichiren buddhism upon the whole family, and me and my sister would go to meetings for the nichiren buddhism ppl, a very popular story was of the sevond exile you said, but we taught "one day, nichiren daishonin got captured by bandits and was witheld at bandit camps. Just as the bandits were abt to behead nichiren, they (every person there) noticed a meteor coming directly to them. Then nichiren prayed and prayed and prayed and then the meteor's path got diverted, the bandits locked nichiren in a tent for a few days or a few years ( i cant rlly remember) and then he was let go" Honestly, i really appreciate this video because i now have an excuse to fight against my grandma for forcing us into the religion, because we were taught "he sent a lot of letters of compasion" and blah blah blah
Awesome another hit man. Are you gonna do all the weird New Religions? Like Soka Gakkai. Fau Lon Gong. Happy Science. Aum Shinrikyo. Tear em a new one 🤣
Although my comments may not make it to the top but here goes. The reason why Nichi-chan chose Lotus amongst other sutras because he studied each of it and concluded that the Buddha's final words is to follow the Lotus Sutra. As stated in Nirvana Sutra, it says, "Rely on sutras that are complete and final and not on those that are not complete and final." Think of it as an IOS or Android update version. Those that preached the sutras before the Lotus are deemed as incomplete, hence it is probably why he thinks the other Buddhism sect are slanderers. Even in the Nirvana Sutra stated to follow Lotus Sutra if read carefully...
Paul was more of a mystic than Nichi-chan. I don't think Nichiren would have much patience for Paul's intense mystical experiences and navel-gazing about them.
He was named Zennichi-maro at birth, took the name Zesho-bo Rencho upon ordination and renamed himself Nichiren after climbing the hilltop and chanting the Daimoku for the first time.
so Nichiren was saved from execution by a UFO? (ive witnessed UFOs with other people, usually while sober. I even once saw a UFO land with my ex when we were camping in the woods, we were terrified)
"Any mild criticism or saying anything slightly contradictory to it counted as slander" Normally you would be sent to a gulag or lose social credit points for doing that to something but he doesn't do those things. That's why his thing doesn't work.
Another pleasant Nichiren vid.
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A fascinating dude. Wouldn’t want to meet him but fascinating nonetheless
Maybe th one that executed with enough power called it off to not make him a martyr an create an even more zealot religious group. When killing him would make that likely worse?! Just an idea.
Nichiren was great. He repackaged the best of the teachings of Tendai and Shingon Buddhism into something that regular people can actually hope to practice and gain benefit and understanding from. He was a great follower of Shakyamuni Buddha. It is no accident that Nichiren Buddhism has spread worldwide, even if Soka Gakkai International, the organization that has largely done so, is extremely questionable. Nichiren-shu, the traditional and largest Japanese Nichiren order, is wonderful and moderate, not militant or prosyletizing, and has locations in the USA.
Last friday, my Japanese Culture Teacher showed one of your videos in class! She had nothing but positive things to say about your work 💜💜💜
Oh wow! Thanks for letting me know 💗
Which video?
That is so cool!
If a Japanese Culture teach show Linfamy's vids, then that's just seal of approval of the culturedness of Linfamy.
@@Linfamy Have you considered asking for royalties?
I love this video
I'd like to add one thing to Nichiren's story: Nichiren really loved his mother, but in the period it was declared that women can't become buddhas (unless they became fully ordained nuns, which was hard to achieve), so Nichiren tried to prove, ordinary women can attain buddhahood, too. The XII. Chapter of the Lotus Sutra is about an 8-year-old girl who became a buddha after he offered a jewel to Manjusri bodhisattva, and because of this, Nichiren stated this Sutra is the one that has to be followed.
That's really sweet for an otherwise deeply unpleasant man if it's true.
@@MrGksarathy Let's just say that Nichiren doesn't deserve his reputation as a "deeply unpleasant man".
ok that´s really sweet
Nichiren Daishonin was a deeply pleasant man who really cared!
@@saddha1 Yeah, it's just too bad his reputation has been so destroyed.
Nichiren threatening the Shinto gods made my day
"...which is like Disneyland without the suffering" I laughed so hard at this that I died and was reincarnated!
What did you reincarnate into?
@@Linfamy A hundred-feet-tall marshmallow man!
@@gozerthegozarian9500OMG hi stay puft :D
Amahtba
@@gozerthegozarian9500 nah bro i reincarnated into a japanese buddhist monk
Nichiren: A man who made an entire sect of Buddhism about flower power.
Makes sense since his real name means splendid sun... apparently 👀
He was exiled twice, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.
@Redli Not when you are being annoying as hell. 😛
Considering St Athanasius got banned several times from the Roman Empire, it seems weird how people get exiled several times but still lived on.
@@fantasyshadows3207 Exile simply means banishment from their home country. Not persecution or execution. Authorities were probably fearful of accidentally making him a martyr.
7:20 Even being executed he's throwing a temper tantrum.
Well, it worked. Can’t argue with results.
Well he’s definitely tenacious, I’ll give him that
And nichiren sgi is. Now in 192 countries and super orthodox most certainly because nam myoho renge kyo works
My mom and dad are Buddhists and they follow the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism. Im going to show them your video. I wonder if they will like it, but I did enjoy it myself.
I follow the teachings of Nichiren Buddhism. I found this video entertaining, but still somethings are distorted.
Im curious now, how did your parents react?
@@warriordinag3921 My parents thought the video was amusing (they liked the animations) but the video was incorrect on a few things such as Nichiren's personality. According to them, Nichiren was not aggressive against the other schools of Buddhism. He stuck to his own teachings of peace. Since his teachings were different, the other schools didn't like him and he was persecuted and exiled a few times. However, he accepted any suffering that came his way and did not threaten nor lash out at others.
@@EternitysSlave That’s funny because his sentiments towards other sects (as described here) were the one thing I disagreed with on a surface glance.
I happened to share similar religious discretion.
Now I wanna look into it. Thanks for sharing!
@@warriordinag3921 Haha, that is pretty neat! You have strong senses! And it is no problem. Actually, thanks for asking me. 🙂
You know, I can’t help but respect him.
same.. sounds like a funny karen who even got his way with the gods after screaming enough
I lived in Sado for a year. The weather is really harsh there. And it takes 2,5h to get to the mainland by boat.
Wow, that explains why it was the land of exile for so many people. I have never visited the island, but my husband stayed there for a short Japanese drum course long time ago. Sado-ga-shima has been the headquarters of Kodo.
I herd its fancy boats now ! I wa going to camp there but was told it was middle class bougie now , no ?
@@courtneymichelle4498 I wouldn't know. I lived there in 2005-2006.
King Crimson really enjoyed the video.
"I really enjoyed this video" he said.
King crimson the band > King crimson the joje
@@BichaelStevens I agree with that, I like both though.
He was release after 3 years because of his faith, he escaped death because he chanted night and day. I am a Nichiren follower/ practitioner. I love this video!
I did wonder what Nichiren followers would think of this video, now I know. Hope you're having a good day.
I assume you're not one of the fascist ones?
@@MrGksarathy Which fascist ones? SGI may or may not be a bit cultish, but it is definitely not fascist. It is broadly anti-war.
Man I would really like to hear more about religious history in Japan. I wonder if the controversial Tachikawa sect of Buddhism would be covered someday? I heard that it's a kind of Buddhist sex cult that was founded in he 12th century. I would love to learn more about them, and how their practices was considered very heretical in their time.
Tachikawa ryu? Someday :)
Tachikawa, tantra, hmmmm
Nichiren "Other Buddhist monks are wrong, they distort the meaning of Buddhism and should be shamed, persecuted and killed!"
Nichiren: Gets shamed, persecuted, and killed.
Nichiren "Wait, that's illegal."
"If people don't like me, it's because I'm right. I'm going to go tell everyone so, until they don't like me and thereby prove me right."
Yes, get madder. Nichiren was right
"... is like Disneyland, without the suffering." Stellar.
I just love your videos 😍 I also loved your southern accent, it made me chuckle. Please keep making content as I find you hilariously entertaining and deeply informative. Luv ya Lin 😘
Thanks! Glad you've stuck around :)
I love your style. Great story telling and even better humor
this guy was so persistent he probably really believed what he taught was right
I think that's a safe assumption :p
@@Linfamy its a rare case, usually religious leaders are after money, power and sex, but this guy was different, I like him
It IS THOUGH. CHANT FOR WHAT YOU WANT AND WATCH
Maybe it just got him laid.
42nd 👍
Cool to know that Nichiren and I have the same villain origin story: Hick accent in an academic setting.
dude same. i went to university after coming from the middle of nowhere in a different part of the country and while pretty much no one pointed it out, the implicit pressure to sound “proper” to be worth listening to is annoying af
One of my professors in a northern University was from the south. One of the kindest and most intelligent people I've ever met.
Last time I was this early, Urashima Taro was still in the Dragon Palace.
:D
I was raised Buddhist, Nichiren Dishonan specifically in California. There were many followers in 70s, questioning the status quo. I appreciate your knowledge about his life. It really does shed light as to why Americans were so fanatical and cult like with his teachings.
Dude, love your channel but this is your finest one so far. I'm laughing really hard and learning all at the same time. Bravo!
I don't know why, but I think Nichiren's persistence and insanity is just that funny.
Disneyland without the suffering! I swear Linfamy can make a joke out of anything.
My grandma followed Nichiren Buddhism, this guy seems crazy.
How do I forget that I subscribed this channel ?!! Now I'm watching all of your video from the newest one
"The more you suffer, the more it shows you really care!" I guess The Offspring are Nichiren fans LOL
Linfamy~ I love your videos so so much. I love the formula, I love the execution, I love your sense of humor, I love the charming graphics, it's all so good. 😍 thankyou for doing your thing
Thanks for the kind words :)
Thanks For this! I just want to add that there are many different branches of Nichiren Buddhism. It's true that there was a branch of Nichiren Buddhism in world war II that propagandized for Japan's military conquests and worshiped the Emperor. However, the SGI (Soka Gakkai International), which was the lay organization of Nichiren Buddhism, did NOT see the Emperor this way. The SGI was very, very anti-war, and did NOT WORSHIP THE EMPORER!....so their leaders were put in jail and starved to death.
SGI is not recognized by Nirchiren and Nirchiren shoshū schools, I've had temples with messages telling people to turn in their Gohanzu from SGI to get a an authentic.
SGI is a vile cult.
I love love love these videos!!
Love love love this comment!
You know it's going to be one hell of a ride when you see " *first* exile"
"When you have nothing to do, you write."
Bro, why you gotta call me out like that?
love your videos. Greetings from Panama
Hello from USA!
I couldn't write a good youtube comment if my afterlife depended on it.
I dunno, this is a pretty good comment
Mood
We can make this world a better place and not have to promise a better life after death? Well he won me there.
Got me too, I’m a Nicherin Buddhist :)
He lost me at the whole "everything sucks because we aren't stanning the Lotus Sutra hard enough".
The drawings and backgrounds are so well done this vid!!
The supernova at totsonuki beach is vela jr and appeared at the exact moment they were to be head him at around 448 am for 100 plus seconds , look it up .
I enjoy listening and learning these bits of Japanese history.
Omg the puns
The only thing I look forward to each week. Limfamy puns.
Nichiren is one of my favorite figures in Japanese history, though I’m pretty sure I’d never want to meet him.
If I may ask, why do you say you’d never want to meet him?
@@MrBastilleDayHe sounds like a deeply unpleasant individual and would have probably made bank as a televangelist these days.
@@MrGksarathyI don't know, something tells me he wouldn't be living in a mansion or stealing money out of his followers.
Though, he would definitely start a holy war for sure
@@seeleunit2000 I feel he might not own one himself, but his wealthy freak followers might house him in mansions and the like as "donations".
The upper classes may not have liked him in his day, but the religious right here and in Japan would absolutely embrace him, and he might have sold out.
U have the most accurate southern accent ever...😄 I had to repeat that section 4 times just because.
I practise Nichiren Buddhism mainly, and I love this!
I feel like a lot of people born into poverty or just generally unfair circumstances often sabotage themselves out of sheer discomfort with things going well for them.
When all you know is misery, happiness can be a very scary thing.
Either that or Nichiren was just an insane contrarian.
I understand that mindset. "Things are temporarily good now, but it will all go away soon."
Dunno if that applies to Nichiren though.
@@Linfamy What I am saying is that the man had a hard life from the get-go and he was often looked down upon even before he started this branch of Buddhism and poverty/people looking down their noses at you has a way of enforcing negative self image, which after a while becomes a source of comfort.
Basically, a case of "better the devil you know than the one you don't."
This isn't to say that he was a Groveler (he obviously wasn't,) just that maybe he had a romantic notion of the long-suffering hero laying down his life for the greater good...that is until he faced execution and it became too real.
He was fine with being killed for his faith, he even though he was. He was simply concerned he needed to spread the teachings of the Lotus more
Great content, thanks!
Linfamy makes me laugh. Every time. No fail.
Those really are some cool flute sounds, babyyyy.
(I had the subtitles on for another video; now I feel like I might have missed some of your jokes.)
I think i might know a littlw bit abt the "ball of light". My grandmother follows and forces nichiren buddhism upon the whole family, and me and my sister would go to meetings for the nichiren buddhism ppl, a very popular story was of the sevond exile you said, but we taught "one day, nichiren daishonin got captured by bandits and was witheld at bandit camps. Just as the bandits were abt to behead nichiren, they (every person there) noticed a meteor coming directly to them. Then nichiren prayed and prayed and prayed and then the meteor's path got diverted, the bandits locked nichiren in a tent for a few days or a few years ( i cant rlly remember) and then he was let go"
Honestly, i really appreciate this video because i now have an excuse to fight against my grandma for forcing us into the religion, because we were taught "he sent a lot of letters of compasion" and blah blah blah
You should become a Nichiren Buddhist. It will be good for you. Secularism leads to ruin, follow the Lotus Sutra.
"which is like Disney land without the suffering!" So many quatable quaits
When you showed how long he lived I was impressed. Someone who stands up for their beliefs religiously usually don't live 60 years.
With 192 countries with thriving sgi members Millions
Nichiren just needed some good wakashu bussy that would have him acting right 🥺🥺🥺
He probably had lots of chigos.
@@Manyfist don’t be so sure
The last time someone had such a hard-on for the lotus, they were still playing warframe.
I knew there was going to be a warframe comment, and this is the best one
The way he explains 🤣😂🤣😂👍❤️
Your explanation is fun to watch and easy to understand but somehow too easy that i would call it condescending
The man, the grease, the legend.
A monk with punishment kink, ugh… better than flagellation used Europe around the same time.
Cope, seethe dilate
Very interesting!
Another SUPER DUPER story :)
Awesome another hit man. Are you gonna do all the weird New Religions? Like Soka Gakkai. Fau Lon Gong. Happy Science. Aum Shinrikyo. Tear em a new one 🤣
I wanna learn the history of haiku!
if you're doing the kamakura period, could you possibly do a video about the real mongol invasion of tsushima?
Nice we're learning about all the buddhist, but is the Kenmu Restoration gonna be here soon too? :D
Although my comments may not make it to the top but here goes.
The reason why Nichi-chan chose Lotus amongst other sutras because he studied each of it and concluded that the Buddha's final words is to follow the Lotus Sutra. As stated in Nirvana Sutra, it says, "Rely on sutras that are complete and final and not on those that are not complete and final." Think of it as an IOS or Android update version.
Those that preached the sutras before the Lotus are deemed as incomplete, hence it is probably why he thinks the other Buddhism sect are slanderers. Even in the Nirvana Sutra stated to follow Lotus Sutra if read carefully...
This guy was a Japanese version of St. Paul. Equally fanatical.
Paul was more of a mystic than Nichi-chan. I don't think Nichiren would have much patience for Paul's intense mystical experiences and navel-gazing about them.
Reupload, did u change anything that makes it worth rewatching? anyway have my upvote fam
Not a reupload lol 💗
@@Linfamy oh
Every video is already worth rewatching
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He was named Zennichi-maro at birth, took the name Zesho-bo Rencho upon ordination and renamed himself Nichiren after climbing the hilltop and chanting the Daimoku for the first time.
He was fanatic even in today standard.
Nine seconds ago time is so slow where does it go?
You know it's good when you see first exile a third of the video in
How dare you make me spit out my drink at 3:42
😂
so Nichiren was saved from execution by a UFO?
(ive witnessed UFOs with other people, usually while sober. I even once saw a UFO land with my ex when we were camping in the woods, we were terrified)
The puns and references just kill me. 😂😂
I’d love to hear your thoughts on Soka Gakkai.
Nichiren was called a spy and a hater of Japan, as he had warned the shogunate about The Mongol Invasion. Exiled to Sado Island.
The most astounding part to me is that Nichiren's dad had a full ginger beard
Your videos are sooo good. Maybe you could concider making content about things outside of Japan and East Asia as well?
Make a video about Kato Kiyomasa he was a Nichiren believer and a total bad ass
You mean brutal, proto-fascist thug? The guy who cut open the bellies of Christian women in Korea to behead the fetuses?
Damn Nichiren went hard, he was like a Jehova's Witness of his time.
Go hard or go hell.
I approve of this message.
You're not include Tatsunokuchi Persecution in this video...
"Any mild criticism or saying anything slightly contradictory to it counted as slander" Normally you would be sent to a gulag or lose social credit points for doing that to something but he doesn't do those things. That's why his thing doesn't work.
That opening joke about SF, as a bay area boy I appreciated this joke XD
Hi to you too 11:12 👋🏾
Howdy 👋
Feel the lotus. Be the lotus..
Bruh 1:18 I felt this way too much 😂😭
It would be interesting for you to do a video on the SGI. What's your take on the SGI?
My take is to consider Nichiren Shu and forget about Shoshu & SGI
Love your videos! Im going to share cause youtube likes that? UA-cam is weird. Thanks for the entertainment!
I can't wait for the narration to reach modern day where Empress Teimei worked behind the scene to bring down Tojo Hideki.
His people were like the Buddhist inquisition. It's kinda terrifying.
Why
Who was financing all his travels i know not everyone had a job at the time but damn.
I’m guessing he collected donations along the way
Followers always finance fervent preachers.
There is a movie in UA-cam called the story of Nichiren Daishonin
Wow, what a crazy man to follow such crazy ideas. I knew some people that followed that man's brand of Buddhism,
god imagine this nichiren guy with a twitter account
The best twitter acct
@@Linfamy hi Linfamy!! best yt account :D im a student and your videos have helped me a lot!! thank u!!
I want to learn about the tendie school of buddhism
😂 I'll comment later. 🤣 oh God, rofl. Linfamy sama, I believe you are a brother of nirvana. I'm laughing too much lmao😅
Delightful!😂🙏
Like having a southern accent in a feminist poetry jam In San Francisco lmao as a Southern woman I laughed
Nichiren sensei, my goat