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There are two kinds of wisdom, correct and perverse. No matter how wise a person may appear, if his assertions are warped you should not listen to him. Nor should you follow priests merely because they are venerable or of high rank. Nichiren Daishonin (WND-1, 1028)
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Temple Issue Timeline: 1993-1994
| 1993 | | | Jan. | Nichiren Shoshu cuts down 280 cherry trees at Taiseki-ji. [The trees were donated by Soka Gakkai members to honor the construction of Sho-Hondo (the Grand Main Temple ).]
| | Apr. 27 | Masatomo Yamazaki, who was imprisoned for attempting to blackmail the Soka Gakkai, is released on parole. Yamazaki later approaches Nikken and becomes a Hokkeko member belonging to the Rikyo-bo lodging temple at the head temple.
| | Sept. 1 | Nichiren Shohsu's mixing cremated ashes in rice bags is exposed.
| | Sept. 7 | Soka Gakkai decides to confer Nichikan-transcribed Gohonzon.
| | Oct. 2 | The Soka Gakkai begins to confer the Gohonzon transcribed by the 26th high priest, Nichikan upon its members.
| | Nov. 3 | South Korean government discovers a counterfeit Nichiren Shoshu temple.
| | Dec. 4 | Nikken goes to Spain to open a Nichiren Shoshu office there.
| | Dec. 15 | Nichiren Shoshu files a libel suit against the Soka Gakkai with the Tokyo District Court regarding reporting on the ‘Seattle Incident.’ | | 1994 | | | June 1 | It is revealed that Taiseki-ji has illegally disposed of many of the deceased's ashes. A number of lawsuits by individual believers follow; Nichiren Shoshu loses in nearly every case.
| | July 8 | The District Court in Pusan , South Korea , fines Nichiren Shoshu priest Hakudo Mori for operating a temple illegally registered as a nursing home.
| | Aug. 21 | At a Hokkeko leaders meeting, Nikken says that he will resign if the Seattle Incident is proven true. |
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