the buddha nature possessed by shakyamuni , many treasures , and the buddhas of the ten directions ; by superior practices , boundless practices , and the other bodhisattvas of the earth ; by universal worthy , manjushri , shariputra , maudgalyayana , and the others ; by the great brahma and the lord shakra ; by the deities of the sun and moon , the morning star , the seven stars in the big dipper in the northern sky , the twenty-eight constellations , and the countless other stars ; by the heavenly gods , the earthly deities , the dragon deities , the eight kinds of nonhuman beings , and the human and heavenly beings who gathered in the great assembly to hear the buddhas preaching ; by king yamain short , by all living beings from the realm where there is neither thought nor no thought above the clouds down to the flames in the lowest depths of hellthe buddha nature that all these beings possess is called by the name myoho-renge-kyo .