Nichiren Shoshu

Myoshinji Temple

The Drum at the Gate of Thunder

(Monthly Gosho Passage July 2009)


Tokusho Doji, who offered a mudpie to the Buddha, was reborn as King Ashoka, and an old woman who made the Buddha an offering of rice gruel was reborn as a pratyekabuddha.

(Gosho, p.1289; MW Vol.5, p.285)