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Votive Stela that includes scenes from the Vimalakirti Sutra and the Lotus Sutra. Northern Qi Dynasty (550–577). Found in Hebei, China. Displayed at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. According to Lopez, the Lotus "is clearly a work of high literary quality. Its authors are unknown, but they were likely ...
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] 1. The Innumerable Meanings Sutra (無量義經 Ch: Wú Liáng Yì Jīng, Jp: Muryōgi Kyō), prologue to the Lotus Sutra. 2.
Gohonzon (御本尊) is a generic term for a venerated religious object in Japanese Buddhism.It may take the form of a scroll or statuary. The term gohonzon typically refers to the mainstream use of venerated objects within Nichiren Buddhism, referring to the calligraphic paper mandala inscribed by the 13th Japanese Buddhist priest Nichiren to which devotional chanting is directed.
Before Nichiren's time, during a Lotus Sutra lecture series in Japan in 1110 C.E., a tale was told of an illiterate monk in Sui-dynasty China who was instructed to chant from dawn to night the daimoku mantra "Namu Ichijō Myōhō Renge Kyō" as a way to honor the Lotus Sutra as the One Vehicle teaching of the Buddha since he could not read the ...
The Karuṇāpuṇḍarīka Sūtra (White Lotus of Compassion Sutra) is another hagiographical sutra which tells a story about a key event in the past life of Shakyamuni Buddha. [ 98 ] The Bhadrakalpika Sūtra give a list of over one thousand Buddhas which will arise in this "fortunate aeon".
The sutra itself, however, does not directly employ the phrase "eternal Buddha". [citation needed] In China the Lotus Sutra was associated with the Mahaparinirvana Sutra, which propagates the tathagatagarbha-doctrine, and with the "Awakening of Faith". [1] The Mahaparinirvana Sutra presents the Buddha as eternal and equates him with the Dharmakaya.
In the 11th chapter of the Lotus Sutra, Prabhūtaratna is described as living in a land "tens of millions of billions of countless worlds to the east" called "Treasure Purity.". [1] Here he resides within a stupa translated variously as the "Precious Stupa," the "Treasure Tower," the "Jeweled Stupa," or the "Stupa of the Precious Seven ...
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