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IdeasMagazine | Feature

Knowing Nichiren

Scholar Jacqueline Stone on one of Buddhism’s great traditions and its founder

An interview with Jacqueline Stone by Frederick M. Ranallo-Higgins

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Dharma Talks

Living the Lotus Sutra

Nichiren Shonin taught that the essence of the Lotus Sutra is found by developing faith through chanting what’s called the daimoku (or the odaimoku), the sutra’s sacred title. Myokei Caine-Barrett, the first woman and the first…

By Myokei Caine-Barrett, Shonin

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