Nichiren daishonin chronicles in detail the persecutions, by cunning and self-serving priests and political leaders, that he and his supporters underwent in thirteenth-century japan. In the three decades since instigating what has become known as the second priesthood issue in 1990, the nikken sect has betrayed the teachings and spirit of nichiren buddhism and has become a group … Persecution of the nichiren sect continued after nichiren’s death, reaching a high point in the mid-sixteenth century, when a band of rival tendai monks burned twenty-one nichiren temples in kyoto, …

During nichiren daishonin’s lifetime, there were several priest disciples who betrayed the daishonin and went against his teachings including sammi-bo and the five senior priests. Meanwhile, 20 farmers who had become nichiren’s followers were falsely accused of stealing rice, arrested and taken to kamakura, where their mistreatment intensified. Adherents of the worldwide nichiren shoshu buddhist sect are embroiled in a growing, major dispute that could result in its breakup. At press time the situation was clearly worsening as nichiren shoshu … Fearful of the violent storm of the shinto religion’s national authority, nichiren shoshu went along with the minobu sect and banned dissemination of nichiren daishonin’s writings, even revising some of …

Fearful of the violent storm of the shinto religion’s national authority, nichiren shoshu went along with the minobu sect and banned dissemination of nichiren daishonin’s writings, even revising some of …