I have now completed publishing “Nichiren, The Buddhist Prophet” by Masaharu Anesaki. Back in June, when I started, I offered a lengthy quote that I felt showed Anesaki’s insight into Nichiren’s Buddhism. It seems fitting to offer a concluding quote:

Buddhahood, or Truth, is eternal. It can be, and ought to be, made a fact in our own life. Nichiren is the man sent to lead all to that life, and he is now assisted by his followers, who are, therefore, the Saints prophesied in the [Lotus Sutra]. The attainment of Buddhahood is not a matter of individuals or of the aggregate of individuals, it is the embodiment of the all-embracing communion of all beings in the organic unity of Buddhahood which is inherent in them all. This realization is the Kingdom of Buddha, the establishment of the Land of Treasures, as Nichiren had declared in his Risshō Ankoku Ron and explained on many occasions.

Nichiren, The Buddhist Prophet, Chapter 9, Page 98-99

In September, as I did in March, I will devote the entire month to Higan and the Six Pāramitās. For the remainder of August I’m going to published some quotes from Nikkyō Niwano’s Buddhism for Today, which I have been using in my 32 Days of the Lotus Sutra posts.