Threefold Lotus Sutra
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The Threefold Lotus Sutra (法華三部経 pinyin: fǎ huá sān bù jīng, Jp: Hokke-sambu-kyo) is a compilation of three related Mahayana sutras:[1][2][3]
- 1. The Innumerable Meanings Sutra (無量義經), prologue to the Lotus Sutra.
- 2. The Lotus Sutra (Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra).
- 3. The Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra (Guan Puxian pusa xingfa jing), epilogue to the Lotus Sutra.
They have been known collectively as the Threefold Lotus Sutra in China and Japan since ancient times.[4]
This group of texts are the core texts of the Tiantai zong.
Notes
- ↑ Reeves 2008, p. 4
- ↑ Katō et al. 1993, p. x
- ↑ Suguro 1998, p. 4
- ↑ Katō et al. 1993, p. xiii
References
- Katō, Bunnō; Tamura, Yoshirō; Miyasaka, Kōjirō (1993). The Threefold Lotus Sutra: The Sutra of Innumerable Meanings, The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, The Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue (PDF). Tōkyō: Kōsei Publishing Company. ISBN 4-333-00208-7. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.
- Reeves, Gene (2008). The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic. Somerville: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-571-3.
- Suguro, Shinjo; Nichiren Buddhist International Center, trans. (1998). Introduction to the Lotus Sutra, Fremont, Calif.: Jain Publishing Company. ISBN 0875730787; p. 4
Further reading
Print:
- Tsugunari Kubo, Joseph Logan (transl.), Tiantai Lotus Texts, Berkeley, Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2013. ISBN 978-1-886439-45-0 (Infinite Meanings Sutra, Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue)
- Watson, Burton (tr.). The Lotus Sutra and Its Opening and Closing Chapters. Tokyo: Soka Gakkai 2009. ISBN 978-4-412-01409-1
Web:
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