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Welcome to RKUK

RKUK has come to London to share the true spirit of Shakyamuni Buddha. The precious and ancient scriptures of the Lotus Sutra are our guiding light. We are usually referred to as Nichiren Buddhism.

We come together to learn, practise and support one another in bringing the Buddha’s teachings into everyday life.

Whether you are already familiar with the Lotus Sutra and O-daimoku, or are just beginning to explore Buddhism, you are very welcome to get to know us, online or in person, at your own pace.

Friends of our faith

For a number of years now I have been very happy to have had the chance to invite the representative of the UK branch of Rissho Kosei-kai (RKUK) to take part in our annual Ceremony at Three Wheels Temple to Pray for World Peace and Reconciliation. This ceremony regularly brings together both clergy from the Church of England and monks and nuns from traditional Buddhist organisations within the UK, along with a number of eminent diplomats from the Japanese and Myanmar embassies and representatives of several international reconciliation groups. Our special encounter with RKUK has enabled profound interfaith insight and deep mutual understanding to blossom between our two Buddhist communities. It is my sincere hope and belief that this will lead to the most wonderful realisation of Harmony within Diversity, the quintessence of Mahayana Buddhism.

Rev Prof Kemmyo Taira Sato from Three Wheels Temple,
Member of the Board of Directors of The Buddhist Society

Our perspective

The Lotus Sutra was written in India to end sectarianism and go back to the true spirit of the Buddha. Though revered as the ‘king of Buddhist sutras’, it embraces other sutras rather than excluding them. It shows how the Buddha’s many teachings ultimately form one path, through which all living beings can attain buddhahood by following the bodhisattva way. This is the One Vehicle.

We see ourselves as a One Vehicle movement for today, standing in a direct line from Shakyamuni Buddha. Guided by the spirit of the Lotus Sutra, we bring the teachings and practices of Buddhism into harmony, from its earliest forms to the many traditions that followed. We seek to live this spirit in our daily lives and through interreligious cooperation and work for peace.

We chant O-daimoku and revere Nichiren as a great bodhisattva and practitioner of the Lotus Sutra. Through his teaching and practice, Nichiren breathed new life into the Lotus Sutra in thirteenth-century Japan, helping us to understand Shakyamuni Buddha’s teachings more faithfully and deeply.

If you want to discover Buddhism’s gifts and values for yourself, you are very welcome to learn and practise with us.

We hope to enjoy practising the Dharma together!

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