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The Canon · No. 054
Nichiren Buddhism
The Lotus school
1253 CE – present · Dharmic / Indian · Living · Japan; worldwide through Soka Gakkai
V. THE MEDIEVAL WORLD — c.500 – 1500 CE
### How many
### Who began it
### What it is for
### What it worships
### What it holds
### What it does
### After death
### Its texts
### Its branches
### Of note
### Its timeline
- 1253 CE Nichiren first chants the daimoku publicly at Seicho-ji.
- 1260 CE Rissho Ankoku Ron submitted to the government; he is attacked and his hut burned.
- 1261, 1271 CE Exiled to Izu, then to Sado. At Tatsunokuchi in 1271 he is taken for execution and, in the tradition's account, a light in the sky stops it.
- 1274, 1281 CE Mongol invasion attempts.
- 1282 CE Nichiren dies; the school fragments almost immediately over the succession.
- 1930 CE Soka Kyoiku Gakkai founded by the educator Tsunesaburo Makiguchi.
- 1943–44 CE Makiguchi and Josei Toda imprisoned for refusing to accept Shinto talismans; Makiguchi dies in prison in 1944.
- 1960 CE Daisaku Ikeda becomes president; explosive postwar growth.
- 1964 CE Komeito, a political party with Soka Gakkai roots, is founded; it has been in Japan's governing coalition for much of the period since 1999.
- 1991 CE Nichiren Shoshu excommunicates Soka Gakkai, severing a lay movement of millions from the priesthood it had been attached to. The split is bitter and permanent.
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