A Buddhist Podcast – Details, episodes & analysis

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

Welcome to A Buddhist Podcast for 16 September 2023. Tonights show is the ninth in a series of dialogues on the Gohonzon between Luigi Finocchiaro, Peter Morris and myself. Tonight we talk about Nichirens travels to Kamakura, the Komatsubara battle and the Izu Exile, looking for evidence and embracing believers in his mandala signature. You can purchase Luigi's books here

Hello to everyone! Tonight we have the first of what I hope will be the first of many conversations with someone who has dedicated his life to the study of the Gohonzons inscribed by Nichiren. He is a published author and you can find some of his most extraordinary books on Lulu.com under the Nichiren Mandala Study Workshop - sometimes under the pen name Ken Mandara