| Early on the morning of April 28, 1253, the thirty-two-year-old priest [Nichiren] climbed to the top of a hill at Kasagamori, which commanded a clear view of the Pacific Ocean. There, as the sun rose, he greeted it with mankind's first invocation of the supreme law. In a clear and resounding voice he chanted, "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo." Before heaven and earth, with the sun as his witness, he had proclaimed the correct practice of Buddhism for people in the modern era. |
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Excerpted from The Life of Nichiren Daishonin by Yasuji Kirimura |
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