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Nichiren

The Lotus Sutra tradition of medieval Japan. The chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo as the entire path.

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Nichiren

The thirteenth-century Japanese reform movement of Nichiren (1222–1282), which holds the Lotus Sutra to be the supreme and final teaching of the Buddha and recitation of its title — Namu Myoho Renge Kyo — to contain the entire dharma.

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The Lotus Sutra

The most influential Mahayana sutra in East Asia. The teaching of the One Vehicle, the eternal Buddha, and the universal possibility of buddhahood. Composed c. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE.

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