On Mt. Sacred Eagle, northeast of Rājagṛha in Magadha, India, Śākyamuni Buddha preached the Lotus Sūtra for eight years in front of the Buddha of Many Treasures and numerous Buddhas from all the worlds in the universe. Listening to Him directly, Grand Master T’ien-t’ai remembered Śākyamuni Buddha declaring that the Holy Teachings of the Buddha preached during His lifetime of 50 years were all for the benefit of the people; and that He has preached the impossibility of attaining Buddhahood by women in various sūtras preached in the first 42 years until He revealed in the Lotus Sūtra that women, too, would be able to become Buddhas. In a great country called China, located across mountains and seas, 108,000 Chinese li away to the northeast of Mt. Sacred Eagle, Grand Master T’ien-t’ai appeared as a messenger of the Buddha 1,500 years or so after the Buddha passed away, and declared conclusively that women cannot attain Buddhahood without the Lotus Sūtra.

Hokke Daimoku Shō, Treatise on the Daimoku of the Lotus Sūtra, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Faith and Practice, Volume 4, Page 47