Catatan-catatan Jepang dari abad ke-12 memuat kisah-kisah tentang biku-biku yang menjalankan asketisme berat, sementara catatan-catatan dari abad ke-19 menyiratkan bahwa para biku Nichiren bangun setiap hari pada tengah malam atau pada pukul 2:00 pagi, dan melaksanakan upacara-upacara memurnikan diri dengan air di bawah curahan air terjun yang dingin.
Notes with concern that the Court is extremely critical of the financial corrections applied by the Commission, which do not ensure the prevention and timely identification and correction of errors, do not take sufficient account of the deficiencies identified in the underlying operations, that is, at the level of the final beneficiary, and do not encourage Member States to take action to prevent irregularities or to improve their management and control systems (paragraphs #.# and #.# of the Court of Auditors' annual reportWikiMatrix WikiMatrix