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Tsukuyomi Speech In English

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If anyone fails to comply with this mantra
Or tries to disturb one who speaks the Dharma,
His head shall break into seven pieces,
Like the branch of the arjaka tree.
Like the retribution for the offense of killing one’s parents,
Or that of pressing oil,
Or cheating others with weights and measures,
Or Devadatta’s offense in breaking up the Sangha- One who harms this Dharma Master
Shall incur calamities such as these.
This was also shown in the aftermath of the Tatsunokuchi Persecution when Nichiren Daishonin reminded and remonstrated with Bodisattva Hachiman of his promise to protect the practitioners of the Law or “his head will be broken into seven pieces.”

In position [15] stands Dai Myojo-tenno (Aruna) - Great Heavenly King Stars, or the god of all the stars. …show more content…

The name Tsukuyomi is a combination of the Japanese words for "moon; month" (tsuki) and "to read; to count" (yomu). He killed the goddess of food, Uke Mochi, out of disgust and anger in the way she had prepared a meal. This caused Amaterasu to never face him again, causing the sun and moon to be in different parts of the sky.
He is also a deification of the moon in Indian mythology called Chandra, incorporated into Buddhism as one of the twelve gods. Chandra is the Vedic god of the moon, and one of the thirty-three gods in the Heaven of the Thirty-three. In esoteric Buddhism, Chandra represents the universal purity of the buddha-nature which cools the passions and removes the three poisons.
This is a deity holding a moon disc in his right hand, his closed left hand rests on his hip. He is seated upon a lotus which is carried by three geese. Here, he appears in the form of a bodhisattva. Originally, he was an Indian god, but was adopted as one of the Twelve Deities (Skt., devas) of Esoteric Buddhism (J., Mikkyô) and came to be a Buddhist

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