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Nichiren Quotes

1222–1282 Japan

Nichiren (6 April 1222 – 13 October 1282) was a Japanese Buddhist monk and philosopher of the Kamakura period.

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The people of today all turn their backs upon what is right; to a person, they give their allegiance to evil.

If we do not admonish the evil priests, how can we hope to do good?

In judging the relative merit of Buddhist doctrines, I, Nichiren, believe that the best standards are those of reason and documentary proof. And even more valuable than reason and documentary proof is the proof of actual fact.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Nichiren (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.