On Persecutions Befalling the Buddha
(Monthly Gosho Passage – February 2010)
The Buddha fulfilled the purpose of his advent in a little over forty years; T'ien-t'ai took about thirty years, and Dengyo, some twenty years. I have repeatedly spoken of the indescribable persecutions they suffered during those years. For me it took twenty-seven years, and the persecutions I faced during this period are well known to you all.
(Gosho, p.1396; MW Vol.1, p.239)