仏教用語・信行用語
Kudoku
功徳
Kudoku is good deeds which produce good rewards for the present time and for the future as merits. And what one gains by making merits becomes virtues.
Great Master Tendai (Tendai Daishi Chigi) explained in his work ‘Konke Kyo Gengi’ that Kudoku means the holy spiritual energy which can remove any misfortune or wickedness and invite happiness and good fortune to those who engage in Buddhist practices.
Nissen Shonin stated in his Gokyoka,
Omogami ni tsumishi kudoku wa hi nimo yakuzu
Hito mo nusumazu mochite yukunari
Only the good deeds (Kudoku) which you have accumulated through the religious activities can be brought to the future world with your soul as treasures. The good deeds which you hold can never be stolen from you and can never be burned when you are cremated.
Great Master Tendai (Tendai Daishi Chigi) explained in his work ‘Konke Kyo Gengi’ that Kudoku means the holy spiritual energy which can remove any misfortune or wickedness and invite happiness and good fortune to those who engage in Buddhist practices.
Nissen Shonin stated in his Gokyoka,
Omogami ni tsumishi kudoku wa hi nimo yakuzu
Hito mo nusumazu mochite yukunari
Only the good deeds (Kudoku) which you have accumulated through the religious activities can be brought to the future world with your soul as treasures. The good deeds which you hold can never be stolen from you and can never be burned when you are cremated.