PLEDGE

   We believe in Shakyamuni Buddha. He is Eternal. He lives in the world. He is the Savior of the world.
  We express our faith by chanting the Daimoku (Sacred Title): Namu Myohorengekyo. Namu Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo represents not only the title of the Sutra (called Hokekyo, the Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, the Lotus Sutra) in which Shakyamuni Buddha declares his eternity but also the Law (teachings) expounded in the Sutra.
   We believe that Nichiren (1222-1282)was the messenger of Shakyamuni Buddha. He never gave up  propagating the Daimoku after he founded the Nichiren Shu on the twenty-eighth day of the fourth month of the fifth year of Kencho (1253) although he was persecuted many times by arrogant people. The persecutions were just as those prophesized in the Lotus Sutra.
   We vow to the Buddha and Nichiren that we will make efforts to secure the peace of the world as well as ours by disseminating the teachings expounded in the Lotus Sutra.

--Nichiren Shu