What is the Gohonzon in the most down to earth language?

blupisces29

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Engyo

'Go' is an honorific that trasnlates into 'Great' or 'Honored'. Honzon is the japanese word for 'focus of devotion' or 'focus of meditation'.

Nichiren's Omandala (the Gohonzon) is a written mandala; a depiction of the scene in Chapters 11-22 of the Lotus Sutra, known as the Assembly in the Sky. There are pictorial versions of the Omandala, where instead of the names of the characters from the Sutra, their pictures are located in the same spots.

The intent is to help us visualize ourselves as participating in that Assembly symbolically when we sit down to recite portions of the Sutra and chant the Odaimoku. Nichiren discusses this in his writing Kanjin Honzon Sho.

Talisman

^^what he said :orange:

zombiegirl

http://www.angelfire.com/mi2/mica2/GohonzonMeaning.html

this website explains everything you will find on the gohonzon.