The Hokke mandala of Nichiren disciples expressed Nyorai (Tathagata), Bosatsu (Bodhisattva), Myoo (Wisdom King) and Tenbu (deities that reside in a heavenly realm, one of six realms in which the souls of living beings transmigrate from one to another), which appear in the last 14 chapters of the Lotus Sutra (also known as Honmon) to which Nichiren must respond at the end of the world.
日蓮門下の諸派に於ける法華曼荼羅は、日蓮が末法の時代に対応するべく、法華経後半十四品（本門）に登場する、如来、菩薩、明王、天部などを表したものである。