"Honen's followers, and those of Dainichi, call themselves the Nenbutsu sect and the Zen sect, respectively. They erect barriers to Buddhahood, saying "reject, combat, rebuff, and cast aside" the Lotus Sutra and recite the nenbutsu to Amida as taught in the provisional sutras; or preaching that the transmission of enlightenment is outside the scriptures and that the Lotus Sutra is but a finger pointing to the moon, they ridicule what they call reckoning up characters. They are the descendants of the six non-Buddhist teachers who have now reappeared within Buddhism. How deplorable! " -- Nichiren Daishonin
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