下種の法華経教主の本迹
The true or provisional teacher of the Lotus Sutra from the standpoint of the Buddhism of the sowing.
自受用身は本・上行日蓮は迹なり、
The Buddha of the property of perfect wisdom is the true identity, while Nichiren as Bodisattva Jōgyō is the provisional identity.
我等が内証の寿量品とは脱益寿量の文底の本因妙の事なり、
The Life Span chapter of the Lotus Sutra of my inner realization is the true cause hidden in the depths of the Life Span chapter of the Buddhism of the harvest.
其の教主は某なり。【本文】
I, Nichiren, am the teacher [of the Lotus Sutra of the sowing].
下種摂折二門の本迹
The Judging the true or provisional between the two ways of syōju and shakubuku from the standpoint of the Buddhism of the sowing .
日蓮は折伏を本とし摂受を迹と定む、
Nichiren determines that shakubuku is the essential practice, while syōju is the theoretical practice.
法華折伏・破権門理とは是なり。
This is the meaning of the passage, “The Lotus Sutra is the teaching of shakubuku, the refutation of the provisional doctrines.”
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