Editing Four Noble Truths (section)

====Nichiren Buddhism====
[[Nichiren Buddhism]] is based on the teaching of the Japanese priest and teacher [[Nichiren]], who believed that the [[Lotus Sūtra]] contained the essence of all of Gautama Buddha's teachings.<ref group=web>{{Cite web |title=Nichiren Shu Buddhist Temple of UK Newsletter |date=September–October 2008 |website=Nichiren Shu UK |url=http://www.nichiren-shu.org.uk/septoctnewsletter.html |access-date=30 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031180446/http://www.nichiren-shu.org.uk/septoctnewsletter.html |archive-date=31 October 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref> The third chapter of the Lotus Sutra states that the Four Noble Truths was the early teaching of the Buddha, while the Dharma of the Lotus is the "most wonderful, unsurpassed great Dharma".<ref group=web >{{Cite web |url=http://www.sokahumanism.com/nichiren-buddhism/Four_Noble_Truths_and_the_Lotus_Sutra.html |title=Quote from Watson (1993), The Lotus Sutra |access-date=2 April 2011 |archive-date=3 November 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131103150647/http://www.sokahumanism.com/nichiren-buddhism/Four_Noble_Truths_and_the_Lotus_Sutra.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> The teachings on the four noble truths are a provisional teaching, which Shakyamuni Buddha taught according to the people's capacity, while the Lotus Sutra is a direct statement of Shakyamuni's own enlightenment.<ref group=web name=nletter2>[http://www.sgilibrary.org/view.php?page=1039&m=3&q=four%20noble%20truths%20for%20voice-hearers Four Noble truths for Voice Hearers] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131101041513/http://www.sgilibrary.org/view.php?page=1039&m=3&q=four%20noble%20truths%20for%20voice-hearers |date=1 November 2013 }}, see "Background" section</ref>