Perhaps once Nichiren was dead, Mara wanted to bring chaos into the Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra (as he sought to bring chaos into Shakyamuni's teachings, once Shakyamuni had died), so he set up conditions for a worldwide shift in pronunciation, just to lessen the effects of the "good medicine for Mappo" (i.e. the Daimoku), Funny thing is, only Taisekiji adopted the practice of a six-syllable Daimoku. Most other Nichiren sects kept the "nam mu". We are discussing a linguistic point here, but the real reason for chanting "Nam mu myo ho renge kyo" is doctrinal, not linguistic. To remove a kanji from the chant is insane as well as uncalled for.
A note worth mentioning : the Fuji school was a tiny insignificant sect until it buckled up with the Soka Kioku Gakkai (a school fraternity of teachers).
A note worth mentioning : the Fuji school was a tiny insignificant sect until it buckled up with the Soka Kioku Gakkai (a school fraternity of teachers starting with makuguchi, a school principle)...... this is correct; they put up with the soga gakkai because the money was rollin' in. cica '75/76, they admonished Ikeda for trying to usurp Nichiren. Claiming he was the latter day teacher. A huge slander. Ikeda publicly apologized ....then formed his plan to separate from Nst in the near future. like trump...deep poison.
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