“Where have we come from and where do we go? Why are we born? Are our lives just random events or do they have some greater purpose? What is the meaning of death? How can we become happy?” Ikeda explores these questions through his lectures on “The Heritage of the Ultimate Law of Life”. The treatise is one of the key writings of Nichiren in which he clarified that Myoho-renge-kyo is the great Law that enables all people to overcome the sufferings of birth and death.