EXPLANATIONS ON TERMS APPEARING IN THE LECTURE 'SHODAI'
THREE GREAT SECRET LAWS:
The Object of Worship of True Buddhism (Honmon-no-Honzon) which is the Dai-Gohonzon. The Daimoku of True Buddhism (Honmon-no-Daimoku). The High Sanctuary of True Buddhism, which is the place where the Dai-Gohonzon is enshrined.
ICHINEN:
Literally 'One Mind'. The life moment, or ultimate reality that is manifested at each moment in all common mortals.
THE THREE PROPERTIES:
(Sanjin) - Also called the Three Enlightened Properties. The three kinds of body which a Buddha may possess:
1. The Dharma Body, or Bodies of the Law (Hosshin), the fundamental truth to which the Buddha is Enlightened.
2. The Bliss Body (Hoshin). Sometimes called the "Reward Body" which is obtained as the reward when completing Boddhisattva practise and having understood the Buddha Wisdom. Unlike the Dharma Body  which is immaterial, the Bliss Body is conceived as an actual body, although one that is trancendent and imperceptable to common mortals.
3. The Manifested Body (Ojin). Or the physical form in which the Buddha appears in this world in order to save the people. 
KYOCHI-MYOGO:
Is the fusion of reality and wisdom, i.e. the fusion of the objective reality or truth of the Buddha nature inherent within one's life and the subjective wisdom to realize that specific truth. This fusion itself is the attainment of Buddhahood. Nichiren Daishonin defined the Law which underlies the fusion of reality and wisdom as Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo. He embodied His own Enlightenment in the Gohonzon. (The fusion of Reality and Wisdom) in the form of the Gohonzon, the Object of Worship. In terms of Buddhist practise for people living in the Latter Day of the Law, reality corresponds to the Gohonzon, and wisdom is one's faith in the Gohonzon. When one chants Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo with deep faith in the Object of Worship, he fuses his life with the Gohonzon and attains Buddhahood.
GODS:
Forces in the environment that protect the people who correctly practise Buddhism of the Lotus Sutra.
THE TEN DEMON DAUGHTERS:
Also known as Kishimojin, a female demon said to have been the daughter of a yaksha demon in Rajagriha. She had 500 children (some sources say 1,000 or 10, 000). According to Kishimmo Sutra and the Binaya Zoji (monastic rules), she killed babies of other people to feed her children, and the terrified populace begged Shakyamuni for help. The Buddha then hid Kishimojin's youngest son Binkara. She sought him throughout the world for seven days, but to no avail. In despair she finally asked the Buddha where he was. Shakyamuni rebuked her for her evil conduct and made her vow never to kill another child. Then he returned her son to her. As a result Kishimojin was revered in India as a goddess who could bestow the blessings of children and an easy delivery at birth. Kishimojin worship was later introduced to Japan. In the 26th chapter of the Lotus Sutra, she and her ten daughters pledged before the Buddha to safeguard the votaries of the Lotus Sutra. These stories hold an important message for us in our practise of True Buddhism. If we practise correctly and earnestly then these, and all the other demons (negative functions or influences which work to destroy one's correct practise and obstruct one's correct judgement, thus depriving people of happiness) will, and must, by their vow to the Buddha, transform themselves into Buddhist Gods, or protective forces, functions, influences, and workings of all life throughout the entire universe which safeguard all of those who correctly and earnestly practise True Buddhism.
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