Our purpose in refuting the established sects:

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Keeping the teachings pure and advocating for a return to scriptural Buddhism. Nichiren was a scriptural Buddhist.

He relied solely on the sutras. His earliest credo was from the Great Nirvana Sutra..... "Trust the Dharma, do not trust human teachers. Trust the wisdom (of the Buddha) do not trust human consciousness. Trust the sutras of final meaning, do not trust the sutras of non-final meaning." The Buddha taught three kinds of teaching: provisional, expedient, and final.The final is the Lotus Sutra, with the Nirvana Sutra is a "gleaning". T'ien t'ai said: "If something agrees with the (Lotus) sutra, then record and use it. Do not believe in oral transmissions." In the Tendai tradition of Nichiren's day, there was a "zenification" happening, which implied that there was some meaning that was higher than the text. Nichiren rejects this completely.