Here is a 1979 Japanese movie about Nichiren.
Although it leaves out many details and depth, it depicts Nichiren the Great Bodhisattva of Japan and the severe persecution he faced.
Anyone interested in religion and history, should familiarize themselves with Nichiren and his writings just as they would study Jesus.
With an understanding of cause and effect, one can realize how persecution of such a great Buddha as Nichiren, just as Christ was persecuted, leads to “general punishment” of the people of a country. Japan’s evil causes of slander of Nichiren and the Lotus Sutra, led to becoming a country hit with Nuclear bombs. The Supreme Law is strict!
When the Mongols were invading Japan as foretold by Nichiren in the writing called “Securing the Peace of the Land, by the Establishment of True Buddhism”(1260) (addressed to the chief of the Shogunate in Japan). Nichiren famously, kneeled and prayed with the Lotus Sutra, , for the country’s protection and the “Kamikaze” winds rose up and destroyed the Mongol’s 500 + warships. This was a well known historical reality.
Later, Japan used the “Kamikaze” term for suicide missions during WW2, even though much of Japan had already betrayed Nichiren’s teachings using the story of Nichiren’s power of faith in a twisted way.
Because of Japan’s previous slander, the Christian world, still has residual animosity of Japan and some would lump Nichiren in with ww2 Japan and slander or ignore Nichiren. Just as some mistaken Buddhists might consider Christians as heretics, the same is true in the reverse, that Christian might think Buddhism is heretical. In reality, they are the same. The Lotus Sutra explained that the true Buddhism appears in other countries, founded by people who are incarnations with different names.
As someone born Christian, I began to study Buddhism very young, when noticing that much from the Gospels came directly Buddhist Sutras. When I first read Buddhist Sutras, I realized it was the historical origin of “The Sermon on the Mount.”—that Jesus was actually teaching Buddhism to the people of Judea—the ■■■■■ Greeks and Romans and others in the area. The Buddhist principal called “Zuiho Bini” means Buddhism is taught according to the country, using language and terms, familiar to the people of a given land.
Nichiren in a way was like a “2nd coming,” but in the far off country of Japan, that had never even heard of Christianity until hundreds of years later.
Watch the movie on a smart TV if possible. It’s a wide screen epic.
