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Everyone who works with ideas gets those ideas from somewhere. First you read various materials, then you see their deep meanings, struggle with them to find their allegorical or metaphorical content, and finally, if you are lucky you gain insights into their meaning. Thus the most important thing we need to do if we want to be completely awake is to read widely. This website draws on a huge storehouse of sources. I've tried to attribute them all. And with time I've found others doing similar work, and that saves me time and money. I simply can't keep original copies of all the materials, plus that is unfair with copy-righted material. That is one reason for this page.
The second is that people should be learning to think. You can read for yourself what I'm reading and draw your own conclusions. The only thing you stand to loose is your willful ignorance if you do this. Not all sources are quoted here. Some are still embedded in webpages and I'm still researching others. Sometimes I may quote a source that is quoting other sources. Othertimes I find myself talking from memory and cannot quote any other source other than my own recollections of what people said or did.
- Sokagakkai:
- http://www.sgi-usa.org
- http://www.sgi-usa.org/buddhism/library/
- Institute for Oriental Philosophy
- http://www.iop.or.jp/0010s/start0010s.htm
- Nichiren Shoshu
- Taisekiji.org
- Kempon Hokke
- http://www.geocities.com/Tokyo/Bridge/7743/
- http://www.kemponhokke.com/
- Don Ross maintains a lot of materials that are worth checking into (warning he has lots of pictures of Gohonzon):
- http://campross.crosswinds.net
- Michael Ryeui
- http://campross.crosswinds.net/Ryuei/index.html
- Lisa Jones:
- http://www.buddhajones.com/
- Jacqueline Stone
- You can try to get a copy * from Amazon.com at this location:
- Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Studies in East Asian Buddhism, No. 12.)
- at:
- Amazon:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0824820266/qid=996758224/sr=1-1/ref=sc_b_1/104-9946593-8114308
- And
- Re-Visioning "Kamakura" Buddhism (Studies in East Asian Buddhism, 11)
- at:
- "http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0824820789/103-0442359-0279053"
- Daniel Montgomery *
- Biographical page
- Fire in the Lotus
- Nanzen Articles:
- Canon Formation:545.pdf
- Revisiting Nichiren:546.pdf
- Nichiren Sh�nin�s View of Humanity:547.pdf
- Nichiren's problematic Works by Sueki Fumihiko:548.pdf
- Bodily Reading the Lotus Sutra:549.pdf
- Nichiren's view of Nation and Region:550.pdf
- Nichiren�s Rissh� ankoku ron and Canon Formation:551.pdf
- Criticism and Appropriation:552.pdf
- Placing Nichiren in the �Big Picture�:553.pdf
- The Uses of Nichiren in Modern Japanese History:554.pdf
- Biographical Studies of Nichiren:555.pdf
- Rise and Fall of Secularization:556.pdf
- Japanese myths:557.pdf
- Other writings:
- Discussion of 9 consciousnesses
- Article called "Two views of Nichiren"
- http://www.iop.or.jp/0010s/sato.pdf
- SGI/NST works in scanned format:
- Laurel District.
- http://www.laureldistrictstudy.homestead.com/AdvStudy.html
- SGI "Untold Story of the Fuji School:
- download page
- http://www.sokaspirit.org/resource/download.shtml
- * Many of these sources are out of print, not in local libraries, and hard to find, so it takes some searching. That is why I've been freely quoting them.