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Eighteen accounts of what is real, each set out in its own terms and each with its own page.
All World Views Does God Exist?The Nichiren Buddhism stream of the Buddhism timeline.
Streams: All of Buddhism Theravada Mahayana Vajrayana Pure Land Zen Tibetan Buddhism Nichiren Buddhism Secular Buddhism Soka Gakkai Navayana
The Japanese monk Nichiren teaches that the Lotus Sutra alone holds the truth for this degenerate age and that chanting its title, Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, is the practice for all people; persecuted and exiled for his denunciations of the other schools and the state, he founds the tradition that carries his name.
At Kiyosumi in Awa, Nichiren first publicly chants Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and proclaims his teaching to the world; his followers keep the day as the founding act of the Nichiren tradition, from which its schools and lay movements descend.
Nichiren is arrested at Kamakura, nearly executed at Tatsunokuchi, and exiled to the island of Sado, where in hardship he writes his major treatises; his followers read the persecution as the Lotus Sutra's own prophecy of the votary's suffering fulfilled in his life.
The Nichiren Shoshu tradition holds that Nichiren inscribed the Dai-Gohonzon, the great mandala object of devotion, for all humankind in this year; the claim and the mandala's provenance are matters of the tradition's own faith, disputed by other Nichiren schools, and the record states them as such.
The educator Tsunesaburo Makiguchi founds the Soka Kyoiku Gakkai, the seed of the Soka Gakkai, on Nichiren teaching joined to his philosophy of value creation; after the war it grows under Josei Toda and Daisaku Ikeda into Japan's largest lay Buddhist movement and a global one.
