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>

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