Myogyoji Temple is a Nichiren Shoshu (日蓮正宗) Buddhist temple located in West Chicago, IL. Myogyoji temple is a place where people from all backgrounds and cultures come together to chant and learn the teachings of Buddhism based on the 750 year tradition of Nichiren Shoshu Buddhism and our head temple Taisekiji located at the foot of Mt. Fuji in Japan. We invite you to come visit Myogyoji temple and learn about true Buddhism.

Special Exhibition on the 800th Anniversary of the Advent of Nichiren Daishonin

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Gosho Passage of Nichiren Daishonin for February 2025

“Three Tripitaka Masters Pray for Rain”

“The best way to attain Buddhahood is to meet good influences. How useful could our shallow intelligence be for attaining Buddhahood? We must seek out good influences even if we have sufficient wisdom to distinguish hot from cold. However, encountering a good influence is the most challenging feat. Therefore, the Buddha compared the rarity of meeting a good Buddhist influence to a one-eyed turtle finding a piece of driftwood [with a perfect hollow] for it to fit in or to the difficulty of dropping a piece of thread from the Brahma Heaven and passing it through the eye of a needle on the earth. Furthermore, in the evil age of the Latter Day of the Law, there are more evil influences than the dust particles that make up the entire world, while the number of good influences is fewer than the specks of dirt that one can place on a fingernail.”

(Gosho, p. 837)

Sunday Ceremony Schedule

**Detailed Schedule*