Example sentences for: nichiren

How can you use “nichiren” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Before he could try again, a messenger arrived with an order commuting Nichiren’s sentence to exile on the island of Sadogashima.

  • No account of this area would be complete without the story of Nichiren (1222–1282), the monk who founded the only native Japanese sect of Buddhism.

  • Later, in 1337, the Nichiren sect built the Ryukoji temple on the same hill.

  • Nichiren’s defiance of both Zen and Jodo (“Pure Land”) Buddhism eventually persuaded the shogunate to order him beheaded on a hill to the south of Hase.


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