“The Buddha assented to the appeal of the śramaṇeras, but it was twenty thousand kalpas afterwards that he expounded to the four kinds of devotees the sūtra of the Great Vehicle called Myōhō Renge Kyō, the Dharma for Bodhisattvas, the Dharma Upheld by the Buddhas.’
“When the Buddha completed the expounding of Myōhō Renge Kyō, the sixteen śramaṇeras kept, recited and understood Myōhō Renge Kyō in order to attain Anuttara-samyak-saṃbodhi.
