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February 16, 2021¹, marks the 800th anniversary of Nichiren Shonin’s birth. Nichiren Shu is celebrating this special day with an online 800th Anniversary Grand Ceremony at Kominatosan Tanjoji Temple.

Schedule
10:30 am: First Bell (Preparation)
10:40 am Second Bell (Congregation Entrance)
10:50 am Drum (Priest Entrance)

That’s 5:30pm Pacific tonight, Feb. 15.
 
Most of the announcements for this ceremony are understandable in Japanese. The main webpage for the event is at nichiren.or.jp/800houyou/. Of course, Google offers on-the-fly translation into English but you need to understand that not everything Google says is necessarily accurate.

Take this translation of the outline of the memorial service:

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Nichiren is said to have been born in the second month of the year on the day after the Parinirvāṇa of Śākyamuni. In the modern calendar that makes his birthday Feb. 16, 1222. The reason this year is the 800th birthday and not 2022, is because you count the day of his birth as the first celebration. return