Nichiren-shū

And yeah.

So joining Nietzsche and being able to follow the path of priesthood was a fulfillment of that early dream, even as it was difficult.

I had to challenge a lot of my inner feelings about being a female in a male environment because I was, at that point, the only female engaged in priesthood.

From the Western perspective, there's plenty of women in Japan who are priests, but I was the only one here in the States.

And when I go, we try to connect.

Hmm.

And does going to, would a missionary trip or would a trip to other parts of the world within a Nichiren-shu context, would that be something that you've done before or would be interested in going to and kind of exploring how different cultures absorb and take to Nichiren-shu?

I've been to different places, to Indonesia and Sri Lanka and India, and able to visit some Nichiren-shu temples there and participate.

My, uh, maternal grandfather is the, um, head priest or abbot of a very small Buddhist temple.

It is Nichiren, Nichiren Shu, and Nichiren is ...

I'm from the older, the oldest sect, uh, not Nichiren Shoshu, not the new Nichiren sect, but the old Nichiren sect was established by Nichiren, who lived in 1222.

There are nu- a number of sects that, um, are based on the Lotus Sutra, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, but we're ...