Having thus manifested the ten divine powers, Śākyamuni Buddha transmitted the five characters of myō, hō, ren, ge, and kyō to the original disciples of the Buddha since the eternal past, who had sprung up from underground. So it is stated in the chapter on the “Divine Powers”:
“Thereupon Śākyamuni Buddha proclaimed to the host of those bodhisattvas such as Superior Practice, who had sprung from underground: ‘The divine powers of the Buddhas are as immeasurable, boundless and unfathomable as shown above. Nevertheless, I shall not be able to reveal all the merits of this sūtra even if I continue telling them, for the sake of its transmission, with my divine powers for infinite myriads of kalpa. To sum up, all the dharma of the Buddha, all the unrestricted divine powers of the Buddha, all the most secretly treasured teachings of the Buddha, and all the profundity of the Buddha are clearly revealed and explained in this Lotus Sūtra.’ ”
T’ien-t’ai comments on this in his Words and Phrases of the Lotus Sūtra: “Following ‘Thereupon Śākyamuni Buddha said to the host of bodhisattvas’ is the third section of the chapter on the ‘Divine Powers,’ summarizing the essence of the Lotus Sūtra and transmitting it to the bodhisattvas from underground.” Dengyō interpreted this in his Outstanding Principle of the Lotus Sūtra (Hokke shūku):
“Again, the chapter on the ‘Divine Powers of the Buddha’ says: ‘To sum up, all the dharmas of the Buddha. … are clearly revealed in this Lotus Sūtra.’ This makes it clear that the dharmas embodying Perfect Enlightenment of the Buddha in the eternal past, all the unrestricted divine powers which the Buddha attained in the eternal past, all the teachings in which the Buddha’s Perfect Enlightenment in the eternal past is most secretly treasured, and all the profundity which the Buddha attained in the eternal past, are all clearly revealed and explained in this sūtra.’ ”
Kanjin Honzon-shō, A Treatise Revealing the Spiritual Contemplation and the Most Verable One, Writings of Nichiren Shōnin, Doctrine 2, Page 158-159