re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Nichiren Buddhism is rather nationalistic and does not disavow the use of violence against those who would offend the Buddha.

Would that make people who annoy the Enlightened one “Buddha pests”?

I think that’s what gave rise to Soka Gakkai. Nichiren were big supporters of Imperial Japan’s ambitions in Asia, so they had to reset after the war. I don’t know much except that they use familiar tactics—shades of Scientology—of recruiting celebrities to become members and targeting those isolated from society (but the same can be said of Tenrikyō, Pure Liberty religion, etc., etc.).