Founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan
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A 13th-century monk who reduced all of Buddhism to one sutra, one chant, and one apocalyptic warning: accept the Lotus Sutra or watch Japan collapse. His followers endured exile, imprisonment, and execution; today they number in the millions across forty organizations worldwide.
Born in 1222 during Japan's Kamakura period, Nichiren became a Buddhist monk who concluded that the Lotus Sutra contained Buddhism's highest truth and that all other teachings should be destroyed. He taught that repeating its title — Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō — was the only path to enlightenment in a degraded age, accessible to anyone regardless of station. He claimed to be the reincarnation of a bodhisattva and wrote prolifically, his harsh attacks on the Buddhist establishment bringing exile twice and death to some followers. After he died in 1282, emperors granted him titles and his movement spl…
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In judging the relative merit of Buddhist doctrines, I, Nichiren, believe that the best standards are those of reason and documentary proof.
The people of today all turn their backs upon what is right; to a person, they give their allegiance to evil.
If we do not admonish the evil priests, how can we hope to do good?
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