Gosho Passage February 2016 / 2016 年 2月御书文段
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Nichiren Daishonin states in “The Essentials of the Lotus Sutra”:
Question: What are the secret Laws that Nagarjuna, Vasubandhu, Tiantai, and Dengyo could not propagate during the two-thousand-odd years after Shakyamuni Buddha’s passing?
Answer: They are the True Object of Worship of the Essential Teaching, the High Sanctuary of the Essential Teaching, and the five characters of the Daimoku of the Essential Teaching.
宗祖日莲大圣人于《法华取要抄》曰:
问云，如来灭后二千余年，龙树，天亲，天台，传教所留之秘法为何物。
答云，本门之本尊，戒坛与题目之五字也。