Devadatta once was a most evil man, but he became a Buddha called Heavenly King Tathagatha by putting faith in the Lotus Sutra. King Ajātaśatru was a wicked king who killed his father, but he later was saved by listening to the Lotus Sutra. Dragon Lady, a woman with a reptilian body, attained Buddhahood after listening to Mañjuśrī’s lecture on the Lotus Sutra. Besides, the Buddha declared that it was the gift of the Buddha to each man and woman of the Latter Age of the Decadent Dharma. The Lotus Sūtra is the one vehicle ship as great as Chinese ships.

Oto Gozen Go-shōsoku, A Letter to Lady Oto, Nyonin Gosho, Letters Addressed to Female Followers, Page 114