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Women’s Division Gosho Study

01 Aug, 2026

Letter from Sado

7 Min(s)

01 Aug, 2026

Iron, when heated in the flames and pounded, becomes a fine sword. Worthies
and sages are tested by abuse. My present exile is not because of any secular crime.
It is solely so that I may expiate in this lifetime my past grave offences and be freed in the next from the three evil paths.

(WND-1, page 303)

This is a letter that Nichiren Daishonin sent to his followers in March 1272 (the ninth year of Bun’ei), from his exile on Sado Island.

Following the Tatsunokuchi Persecution in the previous September, severe persecution was directed...

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