Tina Turner’s Famous Buddhist Chant
In Tina Turner’s 1993 biographical film What’s Love Got to Do with it, Turner turns to a Buddhist chant to gain strength and wisdom that ultimately liberates her from the abusive environment that had surrounded her life. So what was that chant all about? NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO is the chant practiced by Nichiren Buddhist practioners. Nichiren Daishonin, the 13th century Japanese scholar and founder, expounded that the law of the universe was NAM-MYOHO-RENGE-KYO. What does this chant mean?
Nam (devotion): By devoting one’s life to this law through faith, pratice, and study, one can attain enlightenment.
Myoho (mystic law): Symbolizes the mysterious nature of life that one cannot fathom.
Renge (cause and effect): One’s life functions through the universal law of cause and effect
Kyo (sound or vibration): The ultimate universal truth expressed through sound/vibration.
This Sanskrit/Chinese mantra promises to enable all individuals to attain Buddhahood, or enlightenment. Many times, Buddhahood is misconcieved as a transcendental or esoteric state. However, Nichiren Buddhists view enlightenment as one’s highest state of life, or highest life condition, characterized by boundless hope, positive energy, courage, wisdom, and compassion.Â
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(On April 15th, 2007 at 1:35 am)
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