Scripture of the lotus blossom of the fine dharma (the Lotus sūtra) - Hurvitz, Leon, 1923- (New York : Columbia University Press, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Mahayana Buddhism