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.
Tagged: Buddhist Nichiren Buddhism
The Event
- Date
- 1253 (exact)
- Era
- Medieval; Standard periodization of Buddhist history
- Location
- Kiyosumi; today Chiba, Japan
- Traditions
- Buddhism
- Streams
- Nichiren Buddhism
- Key figures
- Nichiren
Connections
- Nichiren; opened
Primary Sources
- Nichiren's letters (gosho)
Secondary Sources
- Stone, Original Enlightenment and the Transformation of Medieval Japanese Buddhism (Hawaii, 1999)
- Buswell and Lopez, The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism (Princeton, 2014)
Provenance: HIST-0425; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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