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Nichiren
日莲 zh 日蓮 ja
Founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan
- Dated 16 February 1222 CE – 14 November 1282 CE
- Also called Dai-Nichiren (Great Nichiren), Risshō Daishi (Great Teacher of Rectification)
A life on the record,
dated by its sources.
Roles, not beliefs
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
Life
Affiliation
As a third party recorded it, often for one period of a life.
What this means
As the records give them: every row is a third party’s statement, not a self-description, and a role or an affiliation is often held for one period of a life only. An affiliation is not a belief, and this site does not ask anyone about theirs. For an office: which one, for how long, and where the records give an ordinal or the holders either side. Recognition of a tenure is never universal: contested lines appear as overlapping tenures rather than as one corrected sequence.
Transmission
Teachers and students
Teaching passed from one person to another, in the direction of the arrows — not ancestry, and not succession.
What this means
In the direction the records give it. This is not biological ancestry and it is not institutional succession: a student who inherited no office still received the teaching, and an heir who received the office may have been taught by someone else entirely. It does not imply that teacher and student agreed.
Nichiren Founder of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan Taught 11
Religious context
What the records tie them to
Founded, supported, associated with — as third parties recorded it.
What this means
A founding is an attribution, usually contested, and not a claim that the tradition began fully formed. Patronage is an act, not a belief: it says nothing about the religion of a population, and nothing about the patron’s own practice in every period of a life. Domains are as sources record them — for a saint, usually a patronage — rarely exclusive, and not the same in every account.
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Named as founderNichiren Buddhism
branch of Buddhism based on the teachings of the 13th-century Japanese monk Nichiren - Named as founder
Nichiren Shū
confederation of four of the original Nichiren Buddhist schools -
Named as founderIkegami Honmon-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan -
Named as founderMyōhon-ji Temple
a buddhism Nichiren sect temple in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan -
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Named as founderKuon-ji Temple
Buddhist temple in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan
Connections
How Nichiren connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Family 1
What this means
A documented human family relationship. Not a succession mechanism, and not religious transmission.
Does not imply a right to an office · transmission of a teaching
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Documented influence 1
What this means
A transmission argued from evidence. Not shared symbols, and not a short path through a database.
Does not imply shared symbols as evidence · a short path through a database
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
13 statements on this record
- 12 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
- 1 Hedged in the source The source said circa, allegedly or presumably. This does not turn that into a date.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
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- Pictures
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Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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