This volume, the thirteenth project of the English Translation Committee of the Nichiren-shu Overseas Propagation Promotion Association (NOPPA), constitutes all fifty-four writings of Buddhist reformer Nichiren Shonin (1222-1282) included in the "Nichiren Shonin Zenshu" ("Complete Writings of Nichiren Shonin"), "Volume V: Biography and Disciples", published in Tokyo in 1993. "The Nichiren Shonin Zenshu" is a modern Japanese version of Nichiren's original writings, translated and edited with annotations by modern scholars of Nichiren Buddhism. Despite its all-inclusive title, the Zenshu is highly selective in that it takes into account only writings considered bibliographically authentic in light of modern scholarship.

Compiled by: Kyotsu Hori