Nichiren Daishonin inscribed this line on the Gohonzon in his own hand. Read it slowly, one column at a time.

佛滅度後二千二百三十餘年之間
一閻浮提之内
未曾有之大曼荼羅也

Butsu metsudo go ni-sen ni-hyaku san-jū yo nen no aida
ichi enbudai no uchi
mizō no dai-mandara nari

In plain words: more than two thousand two hundred years had passed since the Buddha's passing, and in all that time no mandala like this one had appeared in the world.

The English reads: "Never in 2,230-some years since the passing of the Buddha has this great mandala appeared in the world."

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