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Holy Saddharma Pundarika (HTML)

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Holy Saddharma Pundarika is a sacred text of Buddhism.
This text by H.Kern is originally taken from http://www.sacred-texts.com/bud/lotus/ and then reformatted.
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The Lotus Sutra or Sutra on the White Lotus of the Sublime Dharma (Sanskrit: Saddharmapundarika-sutra) is one of the most popular and influential Mahayana sutras in East Asia and the basis on which the Tiantai and Nichiren sects of Buddhism were established. Like all Buddhist texts, it was written several hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha. According to translator Burton Watson it may have been originally composed in a Prakrit dialect, and then later translated into Sanskrit to lend it greater respectability. This sutra is well-known for its extensive instruction on the concept and usage of expedient means , mostly in the form of parables.

The Lotus Sutra was originally translated into Chinese by Dharmaraksa around 290 CE, before being superseded by a translation in seven fascicles by Kumarajiva in 406 CE. It was translated into English by Leon Hurvitz, Burton Watson, and others.

At least some sources consider that the Lotus Sutra has a prologue and an epilogue, these being respectively the Sutra of Infinite Meanings (Muryogui Kyo) and the Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Worthy (Fugen Kyo).

Intro taken from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Sutra

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