"Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo Romanized" is a liturgy book available for donation from the Nichiren Buddhist Sangha of Greater New England. The original book was published in 2006 for the NONA Pilgrimage that was held that year. It allowed the participants to participate in the service held at the head Temple of Kuon Ji in Mt. Minobu. The next couple paragraphs are from the Romanzed version itself to help explain its use during service. Ordering information is at the bottom of the page.
The entire Lotus Sutra is chanted during morning service at many Nichiren Shu Temples including the head Temple of Kuon Ji at Mt. Minobu. Each day a section from the Sutra is read, so that by the end of 32 days, all 28 chapters of the Lotus Sutra have been chanted. Traditionally the Sutra is written in 8 fascicles (8 scrolls). Each fascicle is divided into 4 parts for daily chanting, making up a total of 32 parts. Because some chapters are very long and others short, divisions may occur in the middle of chapters.
The page numbers for this style of daily chanting are included here in this romanized book. Due to size restrictions, this version only includes Kanji characters for those selections that are read most frequintly in daily service (2, 12,16, 21 etc. . . ).
Around the world, the Lotus Sutra is traditionally read in shindoku, a reading of the Chinese translation of the Sutra with a Japanese pronunciation. It is a form of faith reading done as a practice which our inner Buddha nature understands. We also chant in our native language, to further our understanding.
Some elements of a stadard service have been added to this book for convenience. In Japan the Sutra is sometimes chanted in Japanese. A few of the more common chapters chanted in Japanese are added at the end of the book. Pilgrims will find this addition helpful while on pilgrimage in Japan.
"Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo Romanized" is available for shipping.
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Corrections:
Even though we have done are best, a few typos have made it into this volume. Here is a list of corrections for the current volume. A list of dialect changes is also present here as in some areas the Kanji may be pronounced differently. These are not errors. The either or readings will be shown in red lettering. Please adapt to your areas way of chanting.
as of 8 August 2010:
Chapter 01: P10 – Line 15/16: …,”o ze mi roku bo sa tsu,” sa tsu > satsu
Chapter 02: P38 – 6th line bottom up: …,”mai e ru ri sha,” sha > shu
Chapter 3: P55 – line 16: …,”yaku i chin ki zo ho,”
Can be read Zo Ho or Zap Po (Gold 2 volume Lotus Sutra, page 126 )
P66 – line 9 (verse section):
…,”sui bu kyo jo,”
Can be read either “Jo” or “sho” (Gold 2 volume Lotus Sutra, page 155 )
P67 – line 13:
…,”mu ryo ok sen” ok > oku
P70 – line 8:
…,”sen saiki mon shi,” saiki > shiki
P70 – line 2 (bottom up):
…,”waku bu join juku,” join > hin
P72 – line 21:
…,”cho ya ju ku,” cho > chu
Chapter 4: P78 – line 1 (section 3): …,”ga fu so ban,” ban > bon
P79 – line 10 (section 3):
…,”kai shitsu i ju,”
Can be either Kai shitsu I ju or Kai shit chi shu (Gold 2 volume Lotus Sutra, page 189)
P83 – line 7:
…,”moku ni siki shi,” siki > shiki
Chapter 5: P90 – Line 2 - …”shin jitsu ku doku,”; jitsu > jik;
P98 – Line 3 - …”sho butsu yaku nen,”
Can be read sho butsu yaku nen or sho but chaku nen (Gold 2 volume Lotus Sutra, page 232)
Chapter 7: P125 – Last line – “Myo ho ren ge kyo kan da san.” da > dai (typo).
Chapter 10: P141 - 2nd section - Line 14-15: …, “kap po shu sui,”… kap po > katsu bo
Chapter 14: P164 – Line 2: …,”sho nyo ke nyo to gu go,”
can be either “Ke” or “Ka” (gold 2 volume Lotus Sutra, page 449)
Chapter 15: P177 – 2nd to last line: …,”shi myo an ryo gyo,” ryo > ryu
Chapter 19: P215 – Line 9: missing lines
…,shit to chu gen,
ge shi a bi ji goku, (missing)
jo shi u cho, (missing)
sho u gyu shu jo, (missing)
shit to chu gen, (missing)
nyaku sho mon,…
Chapter 19: P216 – Verse Section - Line 1: …,”ze nin no sho jo,” no > i
Chapter 25: P237 – English Title: Preceiver > Perceiver (typo)
We use the 2 volume Gold covered Lotus Sutra shown below to verify reported errors:
