The Ongi Kuden states:
"This
Myoho-renge-kyo (Lotus Sutra) is not Shakyamuni's Mystic Law, because
at the time this chapter was preached, he had already entrusted it to
Bodhisattva Jogyo. (Gosho, p. 1783)
But the Kanjin Honzon Sho (The True Object of Worship) states:
"Having
thus manifested the ten divine powers, Sakyamuni Buddha transmitted the
five characters of Myo, Ho, Ren, Ge, and Kyo to his original disciples
since the eternal past, who had sprung up from under ground." Kanjin
Honzon Sho, pp 122 to 140, NOPPA 1991.
and the Lotus Sutra:
"At
that time the Buddha spoke to Superior Practices and the others in the
great assembly of bodhisattvas, saying: "The supernatural powers of the
Buddhas, as you have seen, are immeasurable, boundless, inconceivable.
If in the process of entrusting this sutra (Myohorengekyo) to others I
were to employ these supernatural powers for a measurable, boundless
hundreds, thousands, ten thousands, millions of asamkhya kalpas to
describe the benefits of the sutra, I could never finish doing so. To
put it briefly, all the doctrines possessed by the Thus Come One, the
storehouse of all the secret essentials of the Thus Come One - all these
are proclaimed, revealed, and clearly expounded in this sutra (Myoho
renge kyo). -- Lotus Sutra Chapter 21
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