Question
This mantra is often paired with icons called gohonzon by groups such as Kenshōkai. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this principal mantra among certain Japanese Buddhists, which is chanted to change practitioners' karma.
ANSWER: Namu-myōhō-renge-kyō [or Nam Myōhō Renge Kyō; accept O-Daimoku]
[10m] The chanting of namu-myōhō-renge-kyō was popularized by a branch of Buddhism named for this 13th-century Japanese priest, which includes Soka Gakkai.
ANSWER: Nichiren [accept Nichiren Buddhism]
[10e] Namu-myōhō-renge-kyō describes a veneration of this principal text of Nichiren Buddhism. This Mahayana sutra focuses on the idea of “skillful means.”
ANSWER: Lotus Sutra [accept Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram; accept The Discourse on the White Lotus of the True Doctrine]
<Benjamin McAvoy-Bickford, Religion>
Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 75% | 25% | 25% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ FSU | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 67% | 33% | 33% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 7 | 11.43 | 86% | 14% | 14% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Norcal) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (South Central) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 0.00 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 3 | 3.33 | 33% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Boston College | Brandeis | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Harvard | Brown | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |
| MIT | Tufts | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |