800 Years: This Heritage of Faith

Now, let us see what is said concerning the Heritage of the Great Thing:

“Whatever may happen to you, arouse in yourselves a strong faith and pray that you may, at the moment of death, utter the Sacred Title in clear consciousness and with earnest faith! Do not seek besides this any heritage of the sole great thing concerning life and death. Herein lies the truth of the saying that there is Bodhi even in depravities, and Nirvāṇa even in birth and death. Vain it is to hold the Lotus of Truth without this heritage of faith!

See Chapter 6, Part 3
Nichiren, The Buddhist Prophet