sentences:  They cite the Izu and Sado Exile ("again and again banished") and the Tatsunokuchi Persecution where the government attempted to execute the Daishonin ("wounded by swords and staves") for propagating the Lotus Sutra "(Jpn.Myōhō-Renge-Kyō)" throughout Japan.Thus, the Shoshu states that Nichiren Daishonin proved he was the "votary of the Lotus Sutra" by "reading the Lotus Sutra with his very life."