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.
@@fantasyshadows3207 Exile simply means banishment from their home country. Not persecution or execution. Authorities were probably fearful of accidentally making him a martyr.
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.
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."
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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)
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 🤣
Brilliance and congratulations for your wonderful work the only thing is when you keep saying balls you limit the audience just by using those silly silly words you limit this video try to use other words balls because it makes a wonderful cartoon That's rated G into a wonderful cartoon That's rated R and that puts a limit on your cartoon..Be Limitless like water my friend said Bruce Lee
So that's why he reminds me so much of my uncle. Strangely enough, my uncle can hold brilliant debates and conversations if you couch it as an academic exercise rather than a religious/spiritual one.
If by Fundamentalist, you mean crazy ranting and no proof, Nichiren Daishonin was not a Fundamentalist. Badass? Yes. Nichiren Buddhism is the only active philosophy that envisions a hopeful future based on the innate capacity of humans to realize the lifestate of Buddhahood just as they are and in this lifetime. As the creator said, Nichiren wrote a lot. Original writings. His reasoning and supporting text is flawless. The SGI is a lay Buddhist organization that encourages its members to live the practices of Nichiren Buddhism in daily life, the most important of which is the twice a day chanting of NamMyohoRengeKyo for our own and other’s absolute happiness, right now. Sounds crazy, you say? Yep. A miracle? Nope. Ordinary people who refuse to be defeated, operating out of compassion for our own and others suffering who are unafraid, that’s who we are. The chanting of NamMyohoRengeKyo is called the Lion’s Roar! Lions do no retreat. Everything we need we are born possessing. Chanting the lion’s roar infuses the practitioner with courage, clarity and calm.
@@shirleyniedzwiecki1104 The fundamentalist mindset I was speaking of was the "I'm right, you're wrong, and you should suffer and die for disagreeing with me." And there's also the "get attention by pissing off everyone who isn't like you, then claim persecution when they get pissed off." It's kind of like when fundies hate on gay people then claim they're being oppressed when they're called out on it. "They're oppressing me! I only wanted to burn down their evil temples!" I'm from a Christian culture, that kind of behaviour isn't exactly foreign to me. Lol
Yeah, I'm Indian and trust me, Japan is far more superior in terms of technological development than India could ever be. Also, the country's (India's) education system is hell.
@@Tane77 Hello! :3 Also, I'm a girl not a dude sorry. Also Japan and Ireland are literally the best countries in the world. (Although Japan is a smudge better than Ireland because Anime and vocaloid exist.)
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.
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!
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
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 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 😘
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 .
The 🥎🥎 on this man to threaten the gods themselves if they did not save him from execution! Don’t let me die because when I go to heaven it’s over for all of y’all! 🤣🤣🤣
My mother was talking about how terrible ancient Japan was when I realized every single point she made was from your videos. You may see this as a triumph, but I do not. She is a Karen. Help me
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.
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
"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.
Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism is True Buddhism! 1) we honor the Saddharma or true Law. 2) we don’t worship Buddha idols which are disrespectful(we turn images 🙃 in our eyes) 3) only Nichiren Buddhism gives this precious Gohonzon to every practioners which helps them focus their minds! Constantly focusing and chanting is what Buddhism is about. Constantly developing our minds is what Buddhism is about. Thank you Nichiren Daishonin! The only true Buddhist who really cared and got the latter day teachings for us! He fought for the Lotus Sutta so future generations would realize this most profound Sutra!!! Namyoho Renge Kyo! Thank you Nichiren Daishonin- they mock what they do not understand!
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.
I really need to show this to my parents who are deeply into Nichiren’s exclusive Buddhism… but I know they’ll be furious and be more deeply into the religion to spread the “only one true religion” to even someone like you… lol
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.
Part of what separates Nichiren Buddhism from other types of Buddhism, is that Nichiren does not say to try to ignore or get rid of your desires. Instead, you pray for your desires, whatever they are, and gain wisdom from the experience. Yes, desires are illusions, but they are also tools to guide you on a path to enlightenment.
@@erinfleming4878 And yet the Lotus Sutra says that they should be self-controlled, apart from worldly life, patient and gentle and respectful of others. :P
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?
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.
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.
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."
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
"... is like Disneyland, without the suffering." Stellar.
"When you have nothing to do, you write."
Bro, why you gotta call me out like that?
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 :)
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.
The drawings and backgrounds are so well done this vid!!
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
The man, the grease, the legend.
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.
Another SUPER DUPER story :)
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)
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 🤣
Bruh 1:18 I felt this way too much 😂😭
His people were like the Buddhist inquisition. It's kinda terrifying.
Why
"southern accent..." you are walking on a extremely thin ice there)))))
Well naturally, because in the south it doesn’t stay cold long enough for thick ice
Except in Texas once in a while for some reason.
@@Linfamy because Texas is always go big or go home.
Linfamy sama ive already sacrificed 2 pokemons in your name and you havent replied me yet
Wow 2? That's some commitment.
I believe a ball of light was flying across the sky right before he was to be executed! It's called the sun.
"This is a comment," He commented.
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He is like Leninism before Lenin
Brilliance and congratulations for your wonderful work the only thing is when you keep saying balls you limit the audience just by using those silly silly words you limit this video try to use other words balls because it makes a wonderful cartoon That's rated G into a wonderful cartoon That's rated R and that puts a limit on your cartoon..Be Limitless like water my friend said Bruce Lee
‘Balls’ does not make something R rated.
‘Huge throbbing cock’ might, but ‘balls’ doesn’t.
The more I learn about him, the more he sounds like a Christian Fundamentalist. Different faith, same mindset.
Religious fundamentalists of all faiths and times act remarkably similar.
So that's why he reminds me so much of my uncle. Strangely enough, my uncle can hold brilliant debates and conversations if you couch it as an academic exercise rather than a religious/spiritual one.
If by Fundamentalist, you mean crazy ranting and no proof, Nichiren Daishonin was not a Fundamentalist.
Badass? Yes.
Nichiren Buddhism is the only active philosophy that envisions a hopeful future based on the innate capacity of humans to realize the lifestate of Buddhahood just as they are and in this lifetime. As the creator said, Nichiren wrote a lot. Original writings. His reasoning and supporting text is flawless.
The SGI is a lay Buddhist organization that encourages its members to live the practices of Nichiren Buddhism in daily life, the most important of which is the twice a day chanting of NamMyohoRengeKyo for our own and other’s absolute happiness, right now. Sounds crazy, you say? Yep. A miracle? Nope. Ordinary people who refuse to be defeated, operating out of compassion for our own and others suffering who are unafraid, that’s who we are. The chanting of NamMyohoRengeKyo is called the Lion’s Roar! Lions do no retreat. Everything we need we are born possessing. Chanting the lion’s roar infuses the practitioner with courage, clarity and calm.
@@shirleyniedzwiecki1104 The fundamentalist mindset I was speaking of was the "I'm right, you're wrong, and you should suffer and die for disagreeing with me." And there's also the "get attention by pissing off everyone who isn't like you, then claim persecution when they get pissed off." It's kind of like when fundies hate on gay people then claim they're being oppressed when they're called out on it. "They're oppressing me! I only wanted to burn down their evil temples!" I'm from a Christian culture, that kind of behaviour isn't exactly foreign to me. Lol
@@chancekahle2214 They're more like each other than they are like their coreligionists
Nichiren seems pretty weird
Yeah, I'm Indian and trust me, Japan is far more superior in terms of technological development than India could ever be.
Also, the country's (India's) education system is hell.
Japan is the best country in the world my dude,greetings from Greece
@@Tane77 Hello! :3
Also, I'm a girl not a dude sorry.
Also Japan and Ireland are literally the best countries in the world.
(Although Japan is a smudge better than Ireland because Anime and vocaloid exist.)
@@kineshashekhar1853 and Nichiren buddhism
@@Tane77 Yep!
rude
"...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
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
Nichiren: A man who made an entire sect of Buddhism about flower power.
Makes sense since his real name means splendid sun... apparently 👀
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
"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
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 👍
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. 🙂
I couldn't write a good youtube comment if my afterlife depended on it.
I dunno, this is a pretty good comment
Mood
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
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.
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
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.
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 more you suffer, the more it shows you really care!" I guess The Offspring are Nichiren fans LOL
Disneyland without the suffering! I swear Linfamy can make a joke out of anything.
Last time I was this early, Urashima Taro was still in the Dragon Palace.
:D
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 :)
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 .
The 🥎🥎 on this man to threaten the gods themselves if they did not save him from execution! Don’t let me die because when I go to heaven it’s over for all of y’all! 🤣🤣🤣
A monk with punishment kink, ugh… better than flagellation used Europe around the same time.
Cope, seethe dilate
Damn Nichiren went hard, he was like a Jehova's Witness of his time.
Go hard or go hell.
My grandma followed Nichiren Buddhism, this guy seems crazy.
My mother was talking about how terrible ancient Japan was when I realized every single point she made was from your videos.
You may see this as a triumph, but I do not.
She is a Karen.
Help me
Wherever she's from, I'm sure they have a way worst history (especially if it involves Catholicism)
I think she may have taken the wrong lesson overall...
You're not include Tatsunokuchi Persecution in this video...
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.
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.
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
I love your style. Great story telling and even better humor
"which is like Disney land without the suffering!" So many quatable quaits
Never forget every kid that studied at the temple most likely had to hook up with the old men
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
Somehow this video is too toned down for Nichiren.
Nichiren is no joke
I wanna learn the history of haiku!
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.
You know it's going to be one hell of a ride when you see " *first* exile"
How do I forget that I subscribed this channel ?!! Now I'm watching all of your video from the newest one
Is this Islam + christianity with some taste of budhism?
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.
"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.
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
5:55 I know I may be reaching but this sounds so much like Christianity it's not even funny.
Nine seconds ago time is so slow where does it go?
Your explanation is fun to watch and easy to understand but somehow too easy that i would call it condescending
Feel the lotus. Be the lotus..
Homage 🙏to Nichiren and not this man !
I love love love these videos!!
Love love love this comment!
Everything is Lotus with this guy. lol
Omg the puns
The only thing I look forward to each week. Limfamy puns.
The way he explains 🤣😂🤣😂👍❤️
Love your videos! Im going to share cause youtube likes that? UA-cam is weird. Thanks for the entertainment!
love your videos. Greetings from Panama
Hello from USA!
Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism is True Buddhism!
1) we honor the Saddharma or true Law.
2) we don’t worship Buddha idols which are disrespectful(we turn images 🙃 in our eyes)
3) only Nichiren Buddhism gives this precious Gohonzon to every practioners which helps them focus their minds!
Constantly focusing and chanting is what Buddhism is about. Constantly developing our minds is what Buddhism is about.
Thank you Nichiren Daishonin! The only true Buddhist who really cared and got the latter day teachings for us! He fought for the Lotus Sutta so future generations would realize this most profound Sutra!!!
Namyoho Renge Kyo!
Thank you Nichiren Daishonin- they mock what they do not understand!
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.
10:28 For a sec I thought that was Winnie The Pooh.
Wait, is he?
lol
Nichiren was called a spy and a hater of Japan, as he had warned the shogunate about The Mongol Invasion. Exiled to Sado Island.
U have the most accurate southern accent ever...😄 I had to repeat that section 4 times just because.
ha. like Nietsche
but supporting spirituality. the uberlotus.
@@keatomic uberlotus 😂👌🏻
Buddha gautama : If my teaching doesnt suit you just leave it.
Nichiren : Anyone who diesnt follow true buddha teaching will go to avici
I really need to show this to my parents who are deeply into Nichiren’s exclusive Buddhism… but I know they’ll be furious and be more deeply into the religion to spread the “only one true religion” to even someone like you… lol
It’s literally built into the religion!
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.
Wow, what a crazy man to follow such crazy ideas. I knew some people that followed that man's brand of Buddhism,
Boy Nichiren, that's a lot of desires you've got there.
Part of what separates Nichiren Buddhism from other types of Buddhism, is that Nichiren does not say to try to ignore or get rid of your desires. Instead, you pray for your desires, whatever they are, and gain wisdom from the experience. Yes, desires are illusions, but they are also tools to guide you on a path to enlightenment.
@@erinfleming4878 And yet the Lotus Sutra says that they should be self-controlled, apart from worldly life, patient and gentle and respectful of others. :P
@@Zahaqiel True. I don't see how your statement is in conflict with with my first statement.
@@erinfleming4878 More it's in conflict with Nichiren's own conduct.
@@Zahaqiel I disagree. Just because you are getting angry doesn't mean you are out of control. "Earthly desires lead to enlightenment".
Demon Slayer fans are gonna come
So he was an entrepreneur with a start-up in religious market but chose wrong core values,marketing strategies and not enough funding. Big lesson.
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Nichi-Chan 🤣
Like having a southern accent in a feminist poetry jam In San Francisco lmao as a Southern woman I laughed
I enjoy listening and learning these bits of Japanese history.