The Refutation of the Three Great Teachers Chapter4

Question: Why do you say that the people in the country of Japan are all alike slanderers of the Lotus Sutra?

Answer: Although the people of Japan are very numerous, they do not exceed 4,589,659 persons in number. These various persons differ in social station, some being superior in rank and others inferior, but they all alike rely upon the three great teachers to be their teachers in Buddhism. They never turn elsewhere than to these three great teachers. There are, to be sure, a few others who do not rely on the three great teachers, but these all belong to the followers of Hsin-hsing,⁸ Shan-tao, or others like them.