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| | The Wonderful Law of the Lotus Sutra |
 | | What is striking to many about the Lotus Sutra is the radical emphasis on devotion and faith, noting that the path to buddhahood is not restricted to those who practiced monastic auterities but to those who worship the buddha (or buddhas) in a number of ways. | | | It is clear especially in the 14th chapter that the main thrust of the Lotus Sutra is for the elite of highly-attained bodhisattvas in the closing Dharma-age (Mappo), to clarify their practice and to demonstrate the unity of the Buddha Dharma behind the facade of seemingly infinite diversity of 'practices' (upaya). | | | The Lotus Sutra was originally written in Sanskrit. |
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| | The Lotus Sutra is regarded as one of the most important and influential sutras, or sacred scriptures, of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | The Lotus Sutra describes the existence of an innate and universal truth, known as the Buddha nature, inherent in all life. | | | Nichiren, living in thirteenth century Japan, studied the Buddhist sutras in depth and emphasized the supremacy of the Lotus Sutra (myoho-renge-kyo, in Japanese), defining the essence of its teaching as Nam-myoho-renge-kyo. |
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| | If Buddhist disciples do not understand the Lotus Sutra, they don't understand Buddhism, because the speaking of the Lotus Sutra is the final goal of the Buddha's life. | | | The Lotus Sutra was spoken by Shakyamuni Buddha before he entered Nirvana. | | | The Lotus Sutras is one of the few whose original text is written in Sanskrit nowadays. |
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http://www.buddhistdoor.com/bdoor/archive/sutra_comm/lotus/lotus1.htm
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| | The Lotus Sutra and Zen Hermeneutics |
| | Dogen’s famous interpretation of the Nirvana Sutra, that “All is sentient being, all beings are buddha nature” (“Busshō,” Shōbōgenzō), for instance, was fundamentally in accordance with the message of the universal salvation proclaimed in the Lotus Sutra. | | | Dogen’s interpretation of the Lotus Sutra cannot be separated from his high regards for the fundamental importance of scriptures, which he considered the vehicle of the transmission of Buddhas’ teachings, and as such scriptures constituted one’s very self. | | | Among the Japanese Buddhist sects, the Amidhists place Amida Buddha on the lotus pedestal and worship him as the savior. |
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http://www.ac.wwu.edu/~yusa/TheLotusSutra&DogenZenHermeneutics.htm
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| | 14 - Peaceful Practices: Anrakugyo-hon, Lotus Sutra Lectures and Nichiren Buddhism |
| | The Lotus Sutra is the teaching of equality; therefore, we must teach the teachings to everyone, but we must be careful not to be influenced by these people's earthly opinions. | | | Chapter 14 is the end of the first half of the Lotus Sutra that reveals the historical Sakyamuni Buddha as a being bound by limitations of time and space. | | | It is called "Shakumon." The last half of the sutra reveals "Honmon," or the Buddha's eternal nature. |
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| | The Seven Parables in the Lotus Sutra |
| | Only the Lotus Sutra and the Nirvana Sutra teach the Enlightenment of the shomon and the engaku. | | | The Lotus Sutra is the most excellent teaching compared to the other Buddhist scriptures because the Buddha gave certification to attain Buddhahood toward shomon and engaku, who had not been allowed to do so in other sutras. | | | The Lotus Sutra is the treasury of the hidden core of all Buddhas. |
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| | Shakymuni, Tientai, Lots Stra |
| | A fragment of the Lotus Sutra, written in Sanskrit and regarded to be the oldest document of its kind, was found in Central Asia in the 19th century. | | | The Lotus Sutra, however, further taught the existence of an innate and universal truth known as the Buddha nature, the manifestation of which enables one to enjoy absolute happiness and to act with boundless compassion. | | | Among the teachings that spread from Central Asia to China, and then to Japan through the Korean peninsula, none was more widely revered than the Lotus Sutra, thought to be the essential teaching he revealed in the last eight years of his life. |
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| | The Daimoku of the Lotus Sutra |
| | In addition, all the sutras expounded by the seven Buddhas of the past, the thousand Buddhas, or the Buddhas of countless aeons ago, as well as those expounded by the Buddhas presently living in the ten directions, are all followers of the single character kyo of the Lotus Sutra. | | | Women who put their faith in the Lotus Sutra should chant Nam-myoho-renge-kyo sixty thousand, a hundred thousand, or even ten million times a day, and after that, if they still have some time to spare, they may now and then murmur to themselves the name of Amida or one of the other Buddhas. | | | Among the latter, the Sanskrit text of the Dainichi Sutra devotes a total of 3,500 verses simply to the explanation of the five characters of the mantra Avarahakha, to say nothing of the countless verses it uses to describe the "seeds," august forms and samayas of the various Buddhas. |
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| | Chinese Cultural Studies: The Lotus Sutra: The True Nature of the Buddha |
| | [Craig Introduction] The Lotus Sutra (Saddharmapundarikasutra), "Lotus of the True Dharma" is one of the best-loved sacred texts of Mahayana Buddhism. | | | Chinese Cultural Studies: The Lotus Sutra: The True Nature of the Buddha |
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http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/lotus0.html
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| | The lotus is one of the 8 glorious or auspicious emblems not only to Tibetans, but also to the Chinese where they are called pa hsi-hsiang. | | | In the Tendai [Tien T'ai] sect of Buddhism, the Lotus Sutra (The Lotus of the True Law) written about the first century of the contemporary era) is thought to encapsulate all the teachings of the Buddha so that no other is necessary. | | | This Lotus (Sanskrit padma, pundarika) whose petals are each marked with the square symbol of the earth element is the earth-as-goddess, source of the essence of Life which is thought of as Moisture. |
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| | Lotus Sutra -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | The Lotus Sutra is regarded by many others as a religious classic of great beauty and power and one of the most important and most popular works in the Mahayana tradition, the form of Buddhism predominant in East Asia. | | | The Lotus Sutra is regarded by many others as a religious classic of great beauty and power and one of the most important and most popular works in the Mahayana tradition, the... | | | In the Lotus Sutra the Buddha has become the divine eternal Buddha, who attained perfect Enlightenment endless eons ago. |
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> Lotus Sutra |
| | So all Sutras that Shakyamuni Buddha taught are good for everyone, and their goodness to an extend are equal but Lotus Sutra is one of the 5 main Important Sutras in Mahayana because Shakyamuni taught 5 most important sutras and takes the most of his life to teach these 5 sutras. | | | Having preached this sutra, the Buddha sat cross-legged and entered the contemplation termed the station of inumerable meanings, in which his body and mind were motionless. | | | Medicine King, this sutra is the storehouse of the secret crux of the Buddhas, it must not be distributed recklessly transmitted to others. |
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| | www.MTSource.org |
| | The Lotus Sutra states that Shakyamuni's parinirvana s simply a skillful means for the benefit of those who would slacken in their own practice and dedication should they see the Buddha as still present and taking care of the world. | | | The Lotus Sutra focus on Shakyamuni also fits the main Buddha figure in Zen, rather than the Buddhas Amida or Vairocana venerated in the contemporary Pure Land and Esoteric (and Kegon) movements. | | | Dogen discusses the Buddha's life-span and the teaching of the venerable underground bodhisattvas as children of Buddha not only in the realm of sutras, but he also applies it to the Zen transmitted lineage of buddha ancestors. |
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| | along the middle path ... the Lotus Sutra |
| | The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, popularly known as the Lotus Sutra, is revered by millions of Buddhists as containing the core and culmination of the Buddha's teaching. | | | the Lotus Sutra is the highest teaching of the Buddha Shakyamuni, wherein he states that all previous sutras are provisional and to be discarded, and goes on to reveal his infinite eternal nature. | | | in the Lotus Sutra, for the first time the Buddha revealed not only his Eternal nature, but the Truth that anyone could attain enlightenment, and that there was only one Buddha Way (the Middle Path). |
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| | Elsewhere in the Lotus Sutra, the Buddha explains that he taught the Hinayana path for those who believe in the existence of the world, and the Mahayana for those whose merit is well matured. | | | In the same way, the Lotus Sutra says that we are all sons of the Buddha and will all achieve the inheritance of Buddhahood. | | | Therefore, the Lotus Sutra explains that the vehicle of the Bodhisattvas, the vehicle of the Pratyekabuddhas (or 'private Buddhas'), and the vehicle of the disciples are nothing more than skillful means calculated to suit the differing capacities and inclinations of sentient beings. |
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| | E-sangha, Buddhist Forum and Buddhism Forum -> The Lotus Sutra & Other Teachings |
| | ANSWER: Regarding the practice of the Lotus Sutra for the ordinary and unenlightened people in these latter days, there are two doctrines, that of “jurui seed” (opening and merging related concepts) and that of “sotai seed”, (opening and merging of opposite concepts) leading them into the one Buddha vehicle. | | | This is a concept that can only be found in the Lotus Sutra, says Nichiren, and by which one may be come a Buddha with one’s present body. | | | In other words, Nichiren uses the Buddhist Canon in a way that is traditional in Buddhist history, grounding his presentation in the Buddhist tradition, using both Sutra and Shastra to embed his understanding in the Dharma as a whole. |
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| | Fugen) in chapter 28 of the Lotus Sutra and its postlogue, the Meditation Sutra. | | | Nichiren Buddhists of all persuasions are likely to enjoy & learn from this comprehensive series of webpages on the buddhas, bodhisattvas, devas, men, women & non-human beings in Nichiren's Lotus Sutra Mandala & in their roles in the broader Buddhist Canon. | | | Excerpts from "Chanting the August Title of the Lotus Sutra: Daimoku Practices in Classical and Medieval Japan" by Jacqueline I. Stone from Re-Visioning Kamakura Buddhism. |
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| | Reflections On The Three Fold Lotus Sutra |
| | Thus the thrust of the sutra is that the truth is quitedifferent from meanings, opinions, and views, and is capable of sustaining logically incommensurable and unharmonizable meanings, opinions, and views.Speech and assertion should supply the pragmatic means for turning the wheel, rather than assisting in the assertion of dogmatic verities. | | | When in the Lotus Suutra we learn that Buddha nature is recognized in all, be they disciples such as Shariputra, great bodhisattvas, relatives of Buddha Sakyamuni, such as Rahula, or indeed, villains such as Devadatta, we can see the universality of compassion and generosity. | | | In conclusion, we see that the Threefold Lotus Suutra is an excellent text from which to learn that our disputes and debates, which set us against each other, and which call for arguments and judgements, presuppose a kind of either/or logic which holds the truth to be similar to a meaning, opinion, or view. |
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| | The Garden of Chan |
| | The Lotus Sutra is such an important and well-known sutra that even Buddhist schools not based on it comment on its validity and usefulness. | | | The words of the sutra clearly state that there is only one vehicle of Buddhism, and that there is no other vehicle.'.... | | | Hearing it, the Sixth Patriarch understood the Buddha's meaning, and then discoursed on the Lotus Sutra for the sake of Fa-ta. |
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| | The Lotus Sutra and Health Care Ethics |
| | He argues that "the claim to legitimacy of the earlier tradition is usurped by the Mahaayaana through the explanation that what the Buddha had taught before was in fact a lie" (36), albeit a compassionately motivated lie. | | | Some of the Buddha's previous existences are covered in chapter twenty-three, a very interesting chapter in which the bodhisattva offers his entire body, his arms, and his fingers out of reverence as fire offerings, a practice which was frequently emulated up until recent times (41). | | | Lord Buddha rhetorically asks the assembly, "Is there any man who can say that this good physician is guilty of the sin of wilfully false speech, or is there not?" And they reply: "There is not, O World-Honored One" (35). |
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| | Lotus Sutra Meditation Techniques |
| | Nichiren meditative practice, which differs from than of Chan, uses the name of the Lotus Sutra, Myoho-renge-kyo, literally "Lotus Sutra of the True Dharma," as a visual and aural meditation. | | | When the daimoku is chanted with total faith in the truth of the Lotus Sutra's teachings, the chanter receives benefit and protection and purification that leads to becoming a bodhisattva. | | | Another Nichiren practice is to recite passages from the Lotus Sutra. |
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| | The Lotus Sutra |
| | The second half of the Sutra reveals the source of the Buddha's enlightenment. | | | explain the practice of the Sutra which is the practice of faith. | | | the Buddha reveals that there have been countless Bodhisattvas arising from the bowels of the earth that have been propagating the Lotus Sutra from time immemorial as his disciples, led by four who represent the Four Virtues of Nirvana. |
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| | Ch 15 "Welling Forth from the Earth" |
| | Lotus posture is most honored, most venerated in Buddhism; those of you who study the Buddhadharma should first know how to sit in the lotus position. | | | The Buddhist Sutras clearly state that if you are born in the heavens, once your heavenly blessings are exhausted, you will fall. | | | Someone might start calculating and say, "It's true the Buddhist Sutras are certainly boundless, but Shakyamuni Buddha was only in the world for about eighty years, and he lectured on the Dharma for forty-nine years in over three hundred Dharma assemblies, propounding the Dharma Flower Sutra for eight of those years. |
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| | Chinese Cultural Studies: The Lotus of the Wonderful Law |
| | It was known as the Tendai sect and it derived its inspiration from a series of Sanskrit texts that focused on the Lotus Sutra, regarded by the Tendai as the final and most authentic teaching of the Buddha. | | | On his return Siacho was given imperial permission to found a new Buddhist secy on Mt. Hiei based on the teaching of the Lotus Sutra. | | | The Parable of the Burning House, which is a part of the otus of the Wonderful Law is designed to show the superiority of the single sutra (that of the Lotus) over traditional Buddhist teaching of the equal power of the three sutras. |
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| | The Essential Lotus; Selections from the Lotus Sutra; Edited and translated by Burton Watson |
| | It is often considered the fundamental Mahayana Buddhist sutra, has attracted more commentary than any other Buddhist scripture, and has had a profound impact on the great works of Japanese and Chinese literature. | | | The Essential Lotus refines the focus from the sprawling magnitude of the original to the chapters that expound its core ideas and have been the most influential in the later development of Buddhist and East Asian thought. | | | Since its first appearance in China in the third century CE, the Lotus Sutra has been the object of intense veneration among generations of Buddhists in China, Korea, and Japan, as well as other parts of the world. |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup/catalog/data/023112/0231125070.HTM
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| | "Risu" The Lotus Sutra Temple of the Thousand Swallows |
| | After my extinction there will also be disciples of mine who, not hearing this sutra (Lotus Sutra), nor knowing nor apprehending the course which bodhisattvas pursue, will by their own merits conceive the idea of extinction and enter (what they think is) nirvana. | | | This was only an expedient I used to teach the people and cause them to enter on the path to Buddhahood." "Men of devout faith, the sutras which the Tathagata expounded are all for the purpose of saving people from their sufferings. | | | If the Tathagata himself knows the time of nirvana has arrived and the assembly is pure, firm in faith and discernment, penetrated with the Law of the Void, profound in meditation, then he will gather together all the bodhisattvas and sravakas to preach this sutra to them. |
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| | » zen & buddhism » the four noble truths » the eightfold path » karma and reincarnation » sutras » FAQ's » glossary of terms |
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| | The Lotus Sutra: Chapter 1 |
| | It was to this Bodhisattva Varaprabha that the Lord, on rising from his meditation, revealed the Dharmaparyâya called 'the Lotus of the True Law.' He spoke during fully sixty intermediate kalpas, always sitting on the same seat, with immovable body and tranquil mind. | | | And the whole assembly continued sitting on the same seats, listening to the preaching of the Lord for sixty intermediate kalpas, there being not a single creature in that assembly who felt fatigue of body or mind. | | | And so, Agita, having once seen a similar foretoken of the Lord, I infer from a similar ray being emitted just now, that the Lord is about to expound the Dharmaparyâya called 'the Lotus of the True Law.' |
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| | Taro Gold : Resources : The Lotus Sutra |
| | The Lotus Sutra, also known as the "White Lotus of the True Dharma," is believed by Mahayana Buddhists to be the highest teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha. | | | It reveals that all people can attain enlightenment as they are, in this lifetime, regardless of race, gender, age, sexuality, education, wealth or any other qualifying characteristic. | | | Chapter Eleven: The Emergence of the Treasure Tower [Ken Hoto] |
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| | Lotus Sutra Coffeehouse Links and Amazon.com Books |
| | The Lotus Sutra by Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research. | | | Tao-Sheng's Commentary on the Lotus Sutra: A Study and Translation (Suny Series in Buddhist Studies) by Young-Ho Kim. | | | The Lotus of the Wonderful Law, or the Lotus Gospel: Saddharma Pundarika Sutra: Mao-Fa Lien Hua Ching by William Edward Soothill. |
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| | Mike's History p 69 - Lotus Sutra. Buddhism. Selections. |
| | The "Lotus Sutra" or "The Lotus of the Wonderful Law" was first translated from Sanskrit into Chinese during the 3rd century AD. | | | Later it became the chief text of the Japanese Tendai school of Buddhism, a major Mahayana school. | | | Those who are able to keep this sutra |
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| | The Imagery of Nichiren's Lotus Sutra |
| | The Lotus Sutra is unique among Buddhist teachings in that it makes the attainment of enlightenment a possibility open to all beings — without distinction. | | | The Imagery of Nichiren's Lotus Sutra: The Gohonzon - The Great Mandala of the True Dharma |
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| | The Lotus Sutra |
| | The Propagation of the Sutra After the Buddha's Entry Into Nirvana | | | The Name of the Sutra to be Taught |
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| | For the volumes of this Sutra that are already translated, see Buddhist Text Translation Society Publications and Ordering Information. | | | The following unpublished chapters are available in electronic format: |
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| | The Imagery of Nichiren's Lotus Sutra |
| | The first printing presses were invented by Chinese Buddhists to print the sutras. | | | Whenever possible, which is most of the time, I return to the original primitive images to translate their derived meanings. | | | These images are found on cave walls, shards of pottery, and bronze castings from the most ancient times. |
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| | See also Lectures on the Lotus Sutra for an outline of | | | Ancient Devotion - [ XXV ] Lotus Sutra |
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