This app is a tribute to Nichiren Daishonins Buddhism and also to Soka Gakkai International, the organization which carries out the original spirit of this Buddhism and spread it all over the world. Its use is dedicated to Soka Gakkais members, beginners, supporters or to the merely curious people who want to approach the practice of the wonderful Lotus Sutras Daimoku and Nichiren Daishonins guidelines.
Do use this app to count the minutes spent while you are chanting your Daimoku, reaching your goals, becoming more and more happy in your life and realizing your human revolution. Do use it to read the wonderful guidelines and encouragements of Nichiren Daishonin or to listen the audio of Daimoku, Gongyo and all the other multimedia contents.
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App contains:
- Full Italian and English versions (Gosho, Gongyo, texts and descriptions).
- All Errors, tips and warnings localized in 5 languages (depending upon device language) : Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese, French.
- Visual themes in 5 colors (Brown, Green, Red, Blue, Lavender).
- 62 quotes from the Gosho (The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin) in Italian and English languages.
- 8 mosaic-style Daimoku counters (with progressive appearance) having the possibility to perform completion in real time (timer) or to add minutes of non-real time chanted Daimoku. Time duration of each single tile of the mosaic is customizable (20,40,60 minutes) from session to session. Please note that Daimoku counters also include the wonderful "One Million Daimoku" (In-App Purchase) which gives the possibility to chant Daimoku for 250 hours.
Possibility to share the completed Daimoku counters on Twitter and " Mount Sumeru NMRK" (global Daimoku collector). Possibility to see the Daimoku counters shared by users around the world with their words of encouragement and determination.
- Gongyo Booklet (Italian and English versions) and related audios (including slow Gongyo, useful for learning).
- Multimedia Gallery including text, videos, audios.
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The current released version is in Italian and English languages. In the next versions the application will be translated in other languages (Portuguese, Spanish, French...etc) and useful new features, new daimoku-counters and multimedia contents, will be added.
Even if this app has been developed for iPhone and iPod Touch devices, also the 2x iPad vision appears to be attractive and functional. You can install it also on iPad without any problem.
Special thanks to italian singer Fabrizio Zanotti for his willingness to provide one of his songs as a contribution to this app.
Special thanks to english singer Annette Beja for her contribution to this app with a song dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Kosen-rufu in Europe. Her song has been downloaded from SGI-UK website and added to the app without asking a specific permission, i hope this will not cause any problem about copyright matter.
Thanks in advance to all artists of any nationality, who will contribute with their work to make this app more and more beautiful, useful and complete.
NOTE: This app is not in any way officially connected to Soka Gakkai International, but is the result of the initiative of a member of Italian Soka Gakkai.