True Buddhism
The Original Buddha
Nichiren Daishonin
Approximately 3,000 years ago, Shakyamuni Buddha founded Buddhism, when he preached numerous teachings (subsequently compiled in the sutras), for more than forty years, to save all human beings, irrespective of the different sexes, social status or class.
In the last eight years of his life, Shakyamuni Buddha revealed the Lotus Sutra, declaring that this teaching was the purpose of his advent; he revealed in it the path to attaining Buddhahood for all common mortals and the existence of the Law and the Buddha since the infinite past. At the same time, he predicted that in an era called Mappo (Latter Day of the Law), which would start 2,000 years after his passing, the True Buddha of the infinite past would make his advent to fundamentally save all humanity.
2,000 years after Shakyamuni’s passing, when the Buddhist teachings would completely lose their effectiveness, in India as well as where the teaching had been taken, China
In the last eight years of his life, Shakyamuni Buddha revealed the Lotus Sutra, declaring that this teaching was the purpose of his advent; he revealed in it the path to attaining Buddhahood for all common mortals and the existence of the Law and the Buddha since the infinite past. At the same time, he predicted that in an era called Mappo (Latter Day of the Law), which would start 2,000 years after his passing, the True Buddha of the infinite past would make his advent to fundamentally save all humanity.
2,000 years after Shakyamuni’s passing, when the Buddhist teachings would completely lose their effectiveness, in India as well as where the teaching had been taken, China
Photo of Taisekiji - Main temple in Japan.
and Japan, Nichiren Daishonin made his advent in the country of the rising sun and devoted his life, as the most prominent votary of the Lotus Sutra, to establish his doctrine based on the Gohonzon of Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo, thus fulfilling the prediction that Shakyamuni Buddha had made in the Lotus Sutra.
(Source: Web page of the Head Temple Taisekiji)