As we cannot see this with our own eyes, we may wonder whether or not there are sūtras superior to the Lotus Sūtra in India, the Dragon Palace, palaces of the Four Heavenly Kings, and the palaces of the sun and moon gods. Were not the King of the Brahma Heaven, Indra, the gods of the sun and moon, the Four Heavenly Kings and the Dragon King present at the assembly of the Lotus Sūtra? If heavenly gods who were present at the assembly like those of the sun and moon say, “You may not know this but there is a sūtra superior to the Lotus Sūtra,” they are absolute liars. I, Nichiren, would charge them declaring:

It is due to their merits in keeping the precept of not telling a lie that the sun and moon stay high up in the sky as securely as we human beings stand on the earth. If they should utter such a lie as there are sūtras superior to the Lotus Sūtra, they would fall before the Kalpa of Destruction and this world would come to ruin. They would not stop falling until they hit the bottom of the Hell of Incessant Suffering. Such inadmissibly deceiving beings could not possibly remain in the sky even for a while orbiting the four continents which surround Mt. Sumeru.

Hōon-jō, Essay on Gratitude, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Doctrine 3, Pages 6-7.