“World-Honored One! I heard Myōhō Renge Kyō, which you expounded in this Sahā World, from a remote world in which lives Treasure-Power-Virtue-Superior-King Buddha. I came here with many hundreds of thousands of billions of Bodhisattvas in order to hear and receive Myōhō Renge Kyō. World-Honored One! Tell me how the good men or women who live after your extinction will be able to obtain Myōhō Renge Kyō”
The Buddha said to Universal-Sage Bodhisattva:
“The good men or women will be able to obtain Myōhō Renge Kyō after my extinction if they do the following four things: 1. secure the protection of the Buddhas, 2. plant the roots of virtue, 3. reach the stage of steadiness [in proceeding to enlightenment], and 4. resolve to save all living beings. The good men or women will be able to obtain Myōhō Renge Kyō after my extinction if they do these four things.”
