Welcome to A Buddhist Podcast for 1st October 2023. Tonights show is the Tenth in a series of dialogues on the Gohonzon between Luigi Finocchiaro, Peter Morris and myself. Tonight we talk about Nichirens exile to Sado Island.

We also discuss:

• Going to Sado Island was not a one way trip, Nichiren's disciples travelled back and forth
• Our practice to the Gohonzon mandala is the eternal return of the Ceremony in the Air
• Kankenki drawings of 1254
• Without Honen there may not have been Nichiren
• Sado is where Nichiren starts to cast off his chrysalis and become a butterfly and at Minobu begins to fly
• Nichirens famous writings on Sado Island, The True Object of Worship and The Opening of the Eyes are extant and clarified so much of Nichiren's teachings
• We can question whether Nichiren was sent to Sado to die, that might not be true!
• Japan is unlike Europe, its natural disasters have meant that nothing about Japan has remained the same physically

 You can purchase Luigi's books here