When we sit in front of the Mandala Gohonzon, we are meeting with the Buddha Shakyamuni, Nichiren Shonin, the many Bodhisattvas and all the other figures pictured on the Mandala. We are there to meet with them, and converse with them, heart to heart, as they open the door of their enlightened world for us. And we do this by speaking in the Buddha’s language: by chanting the Lotus Sutra and Namu Myoho Renge Kyo.