{"id":324,"date":"2017-03-15T17:25:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/?p=324"},"modified":"2017-03-15T17:30:49","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T17:30:49","slug":"what-is-nam-myoho-renge-kyo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/index.php\/en\/2017\/03\/15\/what-is-nam-myoho-renge-kyo\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Gongyo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gongyo means to recite the Sutra and chanting Daimoku in front of the Gohonzon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In Nichiren Shoshu, we recite the Hoben chapter and Juryo chapter of the Lotus Sutra and chant Daimoku of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo to the Gohonzon.\u00a0 We offer five prayers in the morning and three prayers in the evening.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Chanting Daimoku is a fundamental practice and is the source of benefits.\u00a0 Therefore it is called \u2018Shogyo\u2019 or main practice.\u00a0 To recite the Hoben and the Juryo chapter is to explain and uphold the significance and benefits of Daimoku.\u00a0 Therefore it is called \u2018Jogyo\u2019 or supportive practice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gongyo means to recite the Sutra and chanting Daimoku in front of the Gohonzon. &nbsp; In Nichiren Shoshu, we recite the Hoben chapter and Juryo chapter of the Lotus Sutra and chant Daimoku of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo to the Gohonzon.\u00a0 We offer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faqs-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":326,"href":"https:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.senmyozanhokkejitemple.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}