Nichiren also subscribed to this theory and described in "Kanjin Honzon Sho" (Spiritual Contemplation and the Most Venerable One), connecting it with mappo mukai (a concept to deny the validity of precepts in the Final Dharma Age), 'Sakyamuni's Ingyokatoku no niho (the practices done by Sakyamuni over a long period of time and the virtues cultivated for them) are all contained in the five words of myo, ho, ren, ge, and kyo (in Myohorenge-kyo (Hoke-kyo), and if we remember (and honor) the teachings of Buddha with these five words, his kudoku (merits) of cause and effect are naturally transferred to us.'
また、日蓮もこの説を継承し、末法無戒と結びつけ、『観心本尊抄』に「釈尊の因行果徳の二法は妙法蓮華経の五字に具足す。我等此の五字を受持すれば自然に彼の因果の功徳を譲り与え給う」と述べている。