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Ongi kuden
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The Ongi Kuden (御義口伝) (also known as Shū-Jū Hokke-Kyō Ongi Kuden (就註法華経口伝) or The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings) is a hermeneutic text in Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism. The Kuden[1] are the alleged oral teachings of Nichiren Daishonin on the Lotus Sutra, beginning on 1 January 1278 which were recorded and compiled by his senior disciple Nikkō Shōnin thirteen years after the death of his master.[2][3]
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The Hokkeko adherents of the Dai Gohonzon mandala regard this text as one of the most divinely hermeneutic treatises in Nichiren's writings, because it supposedly reveals some essential principles of Nichiren's teachings.[4][5][6]
The Nichiren Shoshu religion considers this text as an authoritative Buddhist scripture preserved at the repository of Nikko Shonin from the year 1295, recopied in the year 1539 (both lost to history). Due to claims of the text being divinely inspired, it vehemently rejects any re-interpretation of this text outside the confines of the sect.