The most venerable scene of this transmission of “Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō” from the Eternal Buddha to His original disciples is:

Suspended in the sky above the Eternal Buddha Śākyamuni’s Sāha World is a Stupa of treasures, in which Śākyamuni Buddha and the Buddha of Many Treasures sit to the left and right of “Myōhō Renge Kyō.” They are waited on by four bodhisattvas such as Jōgyō (Superior Practice) representing the original disciples of the Eternal Buddha called out from underground. Four more bodhisattvas including Mañjuśrī and Maitreya, take lower seats as followers, other great and minor bodhisattvas—those converted by the Buddha in the theoretical section and those who came from other lands—resemble numerous people sitting on the ground and looking up at court nobles. Also lined up on the ground are Buddhas in manifestation (funjin Buddhas) who gathered together from all the worlds in the universe in praise of the Buddha’s preaching, representing provisional Buddhas in their respective lands.

The most venerable scene such as this was not revealed anywhere else by Śākyamuni Buddha during more than fifty years of His preaching in this life. Though He spent eight years preaching the Lotus Sūtra, the scene was limited to the preaching in the sky above Mt. Sacred Eagle recounted in eight chapters.

Kanjin Honzon-shō, A Treatise Revealing the Spiritual Contemplation and the Most Verable One, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Doctrine 2, Page 149