“In Rissho Ankoku Ron, Nichiren seems to be saying that cutting off the government support, the patronage, was enough. iirc. he specifically urged that the Hojo Regency cease their support of the Pure Land faction founded by Honen.”

It still amounts, though, to government deciding which religions will be allowed, and Nichiren ultimately demanding that the government establish a strict theocracy focusing exclusively on (and benefiting only) him, Nichiren.

How does one measure the violence inherent in banning temples and priests from accepting donations? Since temples and priests can only survive via donations, won’t that result in their “going out of business” just as surely as if they were being burned to the ground and beheaded, respectively, though just not so quickly and without the blood-on-their-hands stigma of having done it by force? It’s the same end result, I hope you can see that.

(From another online site)