Questions and Answers on the Object of Devotion Chapter8-4

Later the Great Teacher Kōbō, disgruntled that the True Word sutras had been assigned to an inferior position, worked to establish the True Word school, which regards the Lotus Sutra as inferior not only to the Mahāvairochana Sutra, but inferior to the Flower Garland Sutra as well.

Alas, if Jikaku and Chishō had not allowed this interpretation to be accepted at Mount Hiei and Onjō-ji, then these mistaken views of the Great Teacher Kōbō would never have spread throughout Japan. These two great teachers, Jikaku and Chishō, did not go along with Kōbō’s assessment of the Lotus Sutra as inferior to the Flower Garland Sutra. But they fully agreed with his view that the Lotus Sutra is inferior to the True Word teachings, and thus, astounding as it may seem, acted as archenemies of the founder of their school, the Great Teacher Dengyō.

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