Scripture of the lotus blossom of the fine dharma (the Lotus sūtra) / translated from the Chinese of Kumārajīva by Leon Hurvitz.

Uniform title
Format
Book
Language
English
Translated from
  • Chinese
  • Sanskrit
Εdition
Rev. ed.
Published/​Created
New York : Columbia University Press, c2009.
Description
xxviii, 384 p. ; 23 cm.

Details

Subject(s)
Related name
Series
Translations from the Asian classics
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Expedient devices
  • Parable
  • Belief and understanding
  • Medicinal herbs
  • Bestowal of prophecy
  • Parable of the conjured city
  • Receipt of prophecy by five hundred disciples
  • Prophecies conferred on learners and adepts
  • Preachers of dharma
  • Apparition of the jeweled stūpa
  • Devadatta
  • Fortitude
  • Comfortable conduct
  • Welling up out of the earth
  • The life span of the Thus Come One
  • Discrimination of merits
  • The merits of appropriate joy
  • The merits of the dharma preacher
  • The bodhisattva never disparaging
  • The supernatural powers of the Thus Come One
  • Entrustment
  • The former affairs of the bodhisattva Medicine King
  • The bodhisattva Fine Sound
  • The gateway to everywhere of the bodhisattva He Who Observes the Sounds of the World
  • Dhāraṇī
  • The former affairs of the King Fine Adornment
  • The encouragements of the bodhisattva Universally Worthy.
ISBN
  • 9780231148948 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0231148941 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780231148955 (pbk.)
  • 023114895X (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2008048120
OCLC
271105047
RCP
H - U
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