Buddhist History Pt.3: Buddhism Today

Buddhability

SGI-USA

Health & Fitness, Self-help, Self-care, Religion & Spirituality, Mental Health, Buddhism

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🗓️ 15 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

With so much to learn about Buddhist history, it can be hard to know where to start! This month, we’re doing a short series covering Buddhist history. Today’s episode is about how the Lotus Sutra and Nam-myoho-renge-kyo are practiced today.

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0:00.0	From SGIUSA, I'm Cassidy Bradford and this is Budability, the weekly series where I talk with Buddhists from all walks of life about the power we each have to change our lives and the world around us.
0:18.0	Buddhism today started back around 500 BCE with Shakamuni Buddha's quest to find the way to relieve suffering.
0:27.4	He preached his culminating teaching, the Lotus Sutra, with its revolutionary declaration that all people have the potential for Buddhahood in this lifetime.
0:37.3	Fast forward to 13th century Japan.
0:40.3	A Buddhist monk, Nietzschean, searched for the highest teaching of Buddhism. Through years of
0:46.4	dedicated study, he determined the Lotus Sutra to be Shakamuni's ultimate teaching and uncovered
0:51.8	a way to make that teaching accessible to all people.
0:55.0	Chanting the Lotus Sutra's title, Mioho Rengue-Hengue, along with the Sanskrit word
1:01.5	nam, meaning devotion. Together, Nam-myoho-Rengue-Rengue. But how did the practice of chanting
1:09.5	Nam-Myo-Rengue-ge Kyo make it to us in the year
1:12.4	2024? And what does it look like to practice the Lotus Sutra in the 21st century?
1:19.5	That's the focus of today's episode. We'll talk about Nitrin Buddhism's journey in the 20th century
1:24.7	to present day and the SGI's grassroots Buddhist movement for peace.
1:29.7	As we did with our first two episodes in the series, let's go back in time. In 1928, educators
1:37.0	Sunesaburo Makaguchi and his disciple, Jose Toda, encountered Nietzran Buddhism. In it, they recognized its power to bring people happiness.
1:47.0	They considered how this Buddhist philosophy might also connect with education.
1:51.8	Makaguchi even developed an educational pedagogy based on it, which he called value-creating
1:57.2	education.
1:58.5	He said that the purpose of education should be the happiness of the child, which at the time
2:03.9	was revolutionary.
2:06.5	Makaguchi and Toda both published books based on this educational philosophy, which are still
2:11.5	studied to this day.
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