“The Teacher of the Dharma” chapter of the Lotus Sūtra preaches, “The highest and most perfect enlightenment that all bodhisattvas should attain is expounded only in this sūtra.” The bodhisattvas in this passage refer to living beings in the nine realms. It means that all the people, virtuous or wicked or female or male, the śrāvaka, pratyekabuddha, and bodhisattvas in the Tripiṭaka teaching, the Three Vehicles (śrāvaka, pratyekabuddha, and bodhisattvas) in the Common teaching, the bodhisattvas in the Distinct teaching, and the bodhisattvas in the Perfect teaching of the pre-Lotus sūtras must depend on the power of the Lotus Sūtra for becoming Buddhas.
Ichidai Shōgyō Tai-I, Outline of All the Holy Teachings of the Buddha