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Women’s Division Gosho Study

01 Oct, 2025

Hell Is the Land of Tranquil Light

Translated by Tan Kok Leong

7 Min(s)

01 Oct, 2025

[I]f one dyes something repeatedly in indigo, it becomes even bluer than the indigo leaves. The Lotus Sutra is like the indigo, and the strength of one’s practice is like the deepening blue.

(WND-1, pg 457)

 

 

This letter was addressed to the lay nun Ueno, a disciple in Suruga Province (central part of present-day Shizuoka Prefecture), in the seventh month of the second year of Bun’ei (1265). It was written following the death of her husband Nanjō Hyōe Shichirō who passed away...

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