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Daimoku
(redirected from Nam-myoho-renge-kyo)

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Daimoku, daimoku [ˈdaɪməʊkuː]
n
(Non-Christian Religions / Buddhism)
a.  (in Nichiren Buddhism) the words nam myoho renge kyo ('devotion to the Lotus Sutra') chanted to the Gohonzon
b.  the act of chanting these words
[from Japanese, literally: title]
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Atkins credits his equanimity to 13 years of practicing a form of Buddhism established by a thirteenth-century monk named Nichiren Daishonin, who taught that the essence of the Lotus Sutra was contained in the phrase Nam-myoho-renge-kyo ("Devotion to the mystical law of cause and effect.
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