Considering the results of philology whereby the Hokke-kyo sutra was edited a few centuries later than the age in which Shaka lived, the ways of thinking between Japan and other Mahayana Buddhism countries are different.
法華経の成立が、釈迦存命時より数世紀後だという文献学の成果に対し、日本と他の大乗仏教圏諸国では受容の仕方が異なる。