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\n©The Nichiren Mandala Study Workshop 2015  \nForeword  \nThe Honmon Kaidan Daigohonzon (本門戒壇の大御本尊), or the “Great Gohonzon of the Essential Platform”, is a Honzon from the Nichiren tradition, carved on a camphor plank that has been lacquered black and the logographs guilded. Its format, with engraved characters, is typical of the Fuji School temples, but can be also found at sites of other Nichiren lineages. Nichiren Shōshū conversely enshrines only this Honzon format.  \nThe Hōandō Hall at Taiseki-ji (The Nichiren Mandala Study Workshop)  \nThis wooden mandala, commonly known as Dai-Gohonzon, is a sacred object of devotion of the Fuji Nichiren Shōshū lineage of Nichiren Buddhism. The Dai-Gohonzon is currently enshrined in the Hōandō hall that replaced the older Shō-Hondō . In the past centuries it was stored at the Hōanden, another building within the Taiseki-ji compound. The first image of the Dai-Gohonzon was published in 1911 by Kumada Ijō1, but the plank has not been the subject of scrupulous academic scrutiny, other than for the purpouse of debating sectarian issues internal to Nichiren schools. Nevertheless there is no available picture of the laudatory inscription, so that its calligraphy and the actual contents cannot be independently verified.  \nThe original book “Nichiren Shōnin” by Kumada Ijō  \n1“Nichiren Shōnin”, Kumada Ijō (Munejirō), Hōchisha, Tokyo 1911.  \nThe scholar-priest Inada Kaiso (稲田海素 1869~1956) has authored of one of the first photographic collections of Nichiren’s mandalas, the Gohonzon Shashinchō2 and published the Nichiren Shōnin Go-ibun Taishōki 3 . Inada was involved in the publishing of Nichiren Shōnin Goshinseki4 as well. He was an aquaitance and contemporary of Hori Nichikō (堀 日亨 1867~1957), also a scholar-priest, who tenured as the 59th Abbot at Taiseki-ji for a short time.  \nAs Nichikō, Inada traveled extensively across Japan in order to examine Nichiren’s extant holographs. Being affiliated to different Buddhist schools, the nature of their relationship cannot be defined accurately, but they were undoubtedly very close. It is recorded that Inada was granted hospitality at the Jakunichibō lodging of Taiseki-ji. Although there are no official records, through this connection, Inada was able to examine both the Dai-Gohonzon and the Nichiren mandala said to have been used as a matrix for the plank5. Inada was of the idea that the wooden plank has been fabricatated using different sheets traced from two Nichiren mandalas. This analysis was done considering four different areas of the Dai-Gohonzon. First the depicted figures of the tenfold path, Nichiren’s kaō signature, the laudatory inscription “for more than 2,200 years after the Buddha’s passing…” and the other invocatory 6 caption with a dedication to Kunishige and its dating:  \n\u003C 右為現当二世 造立如件 本門戒壇之 願主 弥四郎国重 法華講衆等 敬白 弘安二年十月十二日 > which can be roughly translated as “ hereby for the present and future, this is built (erected) by request of Yashirō Kunishige (in representation of) Hokkekō group and others, with deep respect, Kōan secondyear, tenth month, twelfth day “  \nWhile the ten worlds and kaō are no doubt traced from an original Nichiren holograph, they were copied from two different Gohonzon. The laudatory and invocatory inscriptions instead are believed to be from someone else. The text contained in those two elements is known only through a transcription 7 made nearly three centuries after by the 14th Abbot of Taiseki-ji, Kunaikyō Ajari Nisshū (宮内卿阿闍梨日主1555~1617) .  \nNeither Yamanaka Kihachi nor Kataoka Kunio of the Risshō Ankoku Kai have openly discussed this subject or released any photo. In recent years Kimbara Akihiko8 published the result of his own investigation with an impartial stance, but the results were the same as Inaba Kaiso’s initial assessment. A contemporary picture of the Dai-Gohonzon was published on the inter","cbCaiumaWANqRsYS","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiumaWANqRsYS","pdf",3892860,23,"English","# Foreword\n## Honmon Kaidan Daigohonzon and its devotional role\n## Hōandō Hall at Taiseki-ji and historical publication\n## Inada Kaiso’s investigation and inscription analysis\n## Inscriptions, tracing claims, and source transcriptions\n## Copies and related manuscript references\n## Practical aspects of the Dai-Gohonzon issue","[{\"question\":\"What is the Honmon Kaidan Daigohonzon described as in the document?\",\"answer\":\"It is a Honzon from the Nichiren tradition, carved on a black-lacquered camphor plank with guilded characters, commonly called the “Great Gohonzon of the Essential Platform.”\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the document say the plank’s inscriptions and calligraphy cannot be independently verified?\",\"answer\":\"It notes that no available picture of the laudatory inscription exists, so the calligraphy and exact contents cannot be confirmed from primary images.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the document claim about how the Dai-Gohonzon was fabricated?\",\"answer\":\"It discusses an analysis suggesting different areas were made by tracing from multiple Nichiren mandalas, with the ten worlds and kaō traced from original holographs while the laudatory and invocatory texts may originate elsewhere.\"}]","The mandala in Nichiren Buddhism - Honmon Kaidan Daigohonzon | PDF",1787903608,58]