52 to do so. Consequently, even if we tried to work together, we there are any scholars or wise men in society who love the truth, even provisionally, and have the will to protect the nation, I am determined to do my best to work with them. I hope that they As we have already seen Enryō was born and raised in a temple, and it was Higashi Honganji that allowed him to study at the University of Tokyo. It is surprising to think that someone of that background would say “Buddhism is practiced by ignorant people and handed down by uneducated monks,” criticizing devotees and temple fami-lies as stupid and ignorant. Something like this was considered heret-ical, and even if someone felt this way in their heart, no one would ever say it out loud—let alone put it down in writing, denouncing the degenerate reality of Buddhism to the world. Enryō liked to chal-lenge the status quo. He broke this taboo knowing he was risking expulsion. Despite this, when the book was published it became a best seller. Young people from the Buddhist establishment with bigger aspira-tions read the book and began to study Buddhist teachings on their own, with some later becoming advanced scholars. There were even some other challengers who risked grave danger to cross the sea in order to seek out the sutras of Shakyamuni Buddha in Tibet. Bud-dhist scholar TOKIWA Daijō evaluated Enryō’s book highly and said that it were as if a savior had come down to earth to rescue Bud-dhism. He explained how this book was read not only by those in the would inevitably fail to achieve our aspirations. Therefore, if will all seek the truth of Buddhism outside of monasticism.
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