Anatta, that there is no permanent unchanging self, is affirmed across Buddhist schools, including this tradition.
Nichiren inherits no-self from the wider Mahayana tradition, though its practice dwells less on analysing the self than on chanting the title of the Lotus Sutra as the direct means of awakening.
Attaining buddhahood in this very body and present lifetime through the daimoku is this tradition's central claim.
Nichiren holds that buddhahood is already present in every person and is drawn out in this very life by chanting the sutra's title, not gained slowly over countless future lives.
Nichiren chants the title of the Lotus Sutra before an inscribed Gohonzon scroll, holding that the title contains the whole sutra and its saving power, so that chanting it is the complete practice and not an abbreviation of it.
Dependent origination, that phenomena arise in dependence on conditions, is the central explanatory principle shared across Buddhist schools, including this tradition.
Dukkha, the unsatisfactoriness of conditioned existence and the first Noble Truth, is affirmed across Buddhist schools, including this tradition.
Nichiren takes the one vehicle of the Lotus Sutra as established and draws the sharper conclusion, that the provisional teachings should be set aside rather than kept as preparation.
Nichiren teaches that chanting the title of the Lotus Sutra can transform even heavy karma, so that past action shapes the present without sealing it against change.
The Lotus Sutra is this tradition's sole scriptural authority, per Nichiren's own writings, the Gosho.
Nichiren dated the latter age from 1052 in the Japanese reckoning and argued that the practice appointed for it is the title of the Lotus Sutra alone.
Exclusive devotion to the Lotus Sutra through the chanted daimoku is this tradition's founding and defining practice.
Nirvana, the cessation of craving and the end of rebirth, is the shared goal named across Buddhist schools, including this tradition.
For Nichiren the goal is buddhahood realised in this present body and this world, so release is described less as escape from rebirth than as the transformation of ordinary life.
Samsara, the beginningless round of rebirth from which the Buddhist path seeks release, is affirmed across Buddhist schools, including this tradition.
Nichiren identifies its followers with the bodhisattvas of the earth who appear in the Lotus Sutra, charged with spreading its teaching in a degenerate age, which gives the ideal a strongly missionary cast.
Distinct from the existing generic Gohonzon sacredobject entity already linked to Nichiren, whose own description addresses the object of devotion as a category rather than a single named historical exemplar; this entry is a specific, dated, individually attributed mandala and does not duplicate it.
The Four Noble Truths, the Buddha's foundational diagnosis of suffering and its cure, are affirmed as the basis of the path across Buddhist schools, including this tradition.
Nichiren accepts the Four Noble Truths as the Buddha's earlier teaching but ranks it below the Lotus Sutra, which it holds to contain the complete truth that the earlier sermons only prepared for.
Nichiren's founding conviction is that the Lotus Sutra alone carries the Buddha's final and complete teaching, and that devotion to it, expressed in chanting its title, supersedes every other practice.
The Noble Eightfold Path, the fourth Noble Truth's prescribed practice, structures the path across Buddhist schools, including this tradition.
Going for refuge in the Buddha, Dharma and Sangha is the formula of Buddhist identity across schools, including this tradition.
The three marks, impermanence, unsatisfactoriness and non-self, are held as characteristics of all conditioned things across Buddhist schools, including this tradition.