This Gosho Nichiren focuses much more on the proper understanding of the lineage and the actual statements of Shakyamuni as to the time and the readiness and capacity of the people of the times. By exploring this thoroughly, Nichiren hopes to enable his students to understand why it is not he, Nichiren who demands the teaching to the essentia chapters of the Lotus to be preeminent and necessary as the only practice of Buddhism viable for we of the Later Day of the Law, but in fact the actual teaching of Shakyamuni himself as he set out his teaching of the Dharma for future generations.