The Hokekyo, however, confesses that Siddhartha is not an person who was born in India and achieved enlightenment under the Bodhi Tree but a Buddha who had achieved enlightenment in the infinite remote past.
法華経においては、釈迦はそのようなインド応誕の仏ではなく、本当は遠い過去に成道していた、と打ち明ける。