Recently I was asked this question by a visitor here:
What does one need to do in order to be reborn in Mount Eagle Pureland?
This was my response:
Faith, Practice and Study.
As Rev. Ryuei McCormick explains: “Faith inspires practice and study. Study informs faith and practice. Practice actualizes faith and study.”
We need faith in the Three Treasures: Faith in the Eternal Sakyamuni Buddha as revealed in Chapter 16 of the Lotus Sutra. Faith in the Dharma as revealed in the Lotus Sutra. Faith in the Great Bodhisattva Nichiren Shonin, dispatched by the Original Buddha Sakyamuni to guide people in the Latter Age.
The practice? Chanting Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō
As Nichiren writes in Shohō Jisso-shō, Treatise on All Phenomena as Ultimate Reality, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Faith and Practice, Volume 4, Page 79-80:
Have faith in the Great Mandala Gohonzon, the Most Venerable One in the entire world. Earnestly endeavor to strengthen your faith, so that you may be blessed with the protective powers of Śākyamuni Buddha, the Buddha of Many Treasures, and Buddhas in manifestation throughout the Universe. Strive to carry out the two ways of practice and learning. Without practice and learning Buddhism will cease to exist. Endeavor yourself and cause others to practice these two ways of practice and learning, which stem from faith. If possible, please spread even a word or phrase of the sūtra to others.
As for being reborn in Mount Eagle Pureland, consider what Nichiren writes in Shugo Kokka-ron, Treatise on Protecting the Nation, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Doctrine 1, Pages 67-68:
QUESTION: Which “Pure Land” should practicers of the Lotus Sūtra pray to be reborn in?
ANSWER: It is stated in the sixteenth chapter on “The Life Span of the Buddha,” the essence of the Lotus Sūtra consisting of 28 chapters, “I will always stay in this Sahā World;” “I reside here always;” and “This world of Mine is at peace.” According to these statements, the Eternal True Buddha, the origin of all Buddhas in manifestation, is always in this Sahā World. Then why should we wish to be anywhere other than this Sahā World? You should know that there is no Pure Land other than the very place where the practicer of the Lotus Sūtra resides. Why should we concern ourselves seeking a Pure Land in any other place?
It is, therefore, stated in the twenty-first chapter on the “Divine Powers of the Buddha” of the Lotus Sūtra: “Wherever scrolls of the sūtra are placed, whether it may be in a garden, a forest, under a tree, in a monastery, a layman’s house, a palace, a mountain, a valley or a wilderness…, you should know that it is the very place to practice Buddhism.” The Nirvana Sūtra states: “You should know, Gentlemen, that wherever this Nirvana Sūtra spreads becomes the Pure Land as indestructible as a diamond, inhabited by people with bodies as imperishable as a diamond.” Those who believe in and practice the Lotus-Nirvana Sūtras, thus, should not seek the Pure Land anywhere other than the very place where they, believers of this sutra, reside.