"As he could not agree with any of his contemporaries, Nichijū decided to establish his own sangha and became convinced that uniting all existing schools into a single Hokke confederation was impossible. Although Nichijū did not receive any transmission even from a second-generation disciple, he advocated a sort of direct spiritual transmission, which he then passed to his own six senior disciples. Both Nichiryū and Nichijū initially studied the traditional curricula at Enryaku-ji without being previously ordained at a Nichiren temple, but reached to the same conclusions. Consequently they claimed such direct spiritual transmission instead of affirming their leadership through a distinct lineage."
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