1) Buddhist ritual implement
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Honzon (本尊 Hon-zon), also known as a Go-honzon (ご本尊 or 御本尊) is a Japanese Buddhist term which refers a holy image or effigy, which most likely is the principal image of a Buddha, Bodhisattva, or mandala image found in either a temple or a household butsudan The image can be either a statue or a small scroll depicting the main image...
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(from the article `Nichiren Buddhism`) ...expressing this concept, known as the sandai-hih (`three great secret laws [or mysteries]`). The first, the honzon, is the chief object of worship ... Nichiren advocated two main religious practices. The first is the worship of the honzon (or gohonzon), a mandala (symbolic diagram) des...
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