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.
Tagged: Persecution Buddhist Nichiren Buddhism
The Event
- Date
- 1271 (exact)
- Era
- Medieval; Standard periodization of Buddhist history
- Location
- Kamakura and Sado Island; today Japan
- Traditions
- Buddhism
- Streams
- Nichiren Buddhism
- Key figures
- Nichiren
- Key texts
- Kaimoku Sho, Kanjin no Honzon Sho
Primary Sources
- Nichiren, Kaimoku Sho
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-0427; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-27.
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