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The characters mean: subtle dharma lotus flower sutra Shortened title: Chinese: 法華經; pinyin: Fǎhuá jīng ("Dharma Flower Sutra") The title of Dharmaraksha's Chinese translation is Chinese: 正法華經; pinyin: Zhèngfǎ huá jīng ("True Dharma Flower Sutra") Japanese: 妙法蓮華経, romanized: Myōhō Renge Kyō (short: Hoke-kyō)
According to varying believers, Nichiren cited the mantra in his Ongi Kuden, [12] [dubious – discuss] a transcription of his lectures about the Lotus Sutra, Namu (南無) is a transliteration into Japanese of the Sanskrit namas, and Myōhō Renge Kyō is the Sino-Japanese pronunciation of the Chinese title of the Lotus Sutra (hence, Daimoku ...
The Threefold Lotus Sutra (法華三部経 pinyin: fǎ huá sān bù jīng, Jp: Hokke-sambu-kyo) is the composition of three complementary sutras that together form the "three-part Dharma flower sutra": [1] [2] [3]
The dragon king's daughter presents her priceless jewel to the Buddha; frontispiece of a 12th-century Lotus Sutra handscroll in the "Heike Nokyo". [3] Longnü is depicted in the 12th Chapter of the Lotus Sūtra (Skt. Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtra) as being full of wisdom and achieving instant enlightenment.
The extant Chinese text of the meditation sutra was translated by Dharmamitra between 424 and 442 CE (T09n277). [1] The Samantabhadra Meditation Sūtra is often included in the so-called "Threefold Lotus Sutra," along with the Lotus Sutra and the Innumerable Meanings Sutra.
Bhaiṣajyarāja (Skt: भैषज्यराज; Traditional Chinese: 藥王; Simplified Chinese: 药王; pinyin: yào wáng; Japanese: 薬王 Yakuō; Vietnamese: Dược Vương Bồ Tát), or Medicine King, is a bodhisattva mentioned within the Lotus Sutra and the Bhaiṣajyarāja-bhaiṣajyasamudgata-sūtra (Chinese ...
A central doctrine of Tiantai is the Lotus Sutra's doctrine of the One Vehicle or ekayāna (traditional Chinese: 一乘; pinyin: yīchéng). This doctrine provided a unifying and inclusive framework which could be used to understand all Buddhist teachings.
Chinese Buddhism focuses on studying Mahayana sutras and Mahāyāna treatises and draws its main doctrines from these sources. Some of the most important scriptures in Chinese Buddhism include: the Lotus Sutra, the Flower Ornament Sutra, the Vimalakirtī Sutra, the Nirvana Sutra, and the Amitābha Sutra. [2] [51]