Nichiren Shoshu Official Documentary

Beautiful official documentary in Japanese of Nichiren Daishonin’s life (1222-1282), the True Buddha of Kuon Ganjo, and the Second High Priest Byakuren Ajari Nikko Shonin (1246-1333) who protected and led Nichiren Shoshu. In the documentary, it is explained the main events of Nichiren Daishonin’s life including historical works like the Rissho Ankoku Ron (1260) and the several persecutions like the Tatsunokuchi Persecution on September 12^th, 1271: When he was almost going to be beheaded a shining object appeared in the night sky saving him. Because the authorities feared the mystic event, they decided to do not kill Nichiren Daishonin but rather sent him in exile to Sado Island. There, as the documentarist explains, Nichiren Daishonin endured living in a small hut in the middle of the snow and suffering extreme poverty far away from his believers. In the end, Nichiren Daishonin culminated his life with the Dai-Gohonzon inscribed on October 12^th, 1279. This is the core object of worship in Nichiren Shoshu and after Nichiren Daishonin’s death on October 13^th, 1282, it was inherited by Second High Priest Byakuren Ajari Nikko Shonin (1246-1333). The next part of the documentary explains the creation of the Head Temple Taiseki-ji (1290) in Mt. Fuji thanks to the believer Nanjo Tokimitsu (1259-1332). A special attention is given to the Five-Storied Pagoda. The documentary ends with the concept of Kosen-rufu: The worldwide believers called Hokkeko have the wish of spreading Nichiren Shoshu throughout the world. I am looking forward that this video eventually has subtitles in English since it is extraordinary. Also I must say that the documentarist put a lot of motivation to make the story vivid and she sort of reminds me to the video game character Yuna from Final Fantasy X.