"One should consider the fact that, if the Buddha had not attained enlightenment in the distant past, there could not have been so many people converted to his teachings......"(Kaimoku Sho)
The Buddha is the source of both the specific and the general transmission. The Gohonzon, though a text, is the the reality of the Buddha.
The prescription is also the medicine. It's like being healed from consuming the script, that would be bad news for pharmaceutical industry like religious corporations that specialize in fleecing the sheep
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