The Lotus Sutra

The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Dharma, an important Mahayana sutra

Author

Senchu Murano, translator, revised by Daniel B Montgomery

Publisher

Nichiren Shu Headquarters, Tokyo, 1991

Printing Details

Second edition. Paperback. 21 × 15cm, xviii + 408pp.

The "Lotus Sutra", as it is generally known in the West, is one of the most important of all the Mahayana sutras, and especially in Japan, where it is popularly known as the Ho-ke-kyou. It is divided into 28 chapters, of which Chapter 16, 'The Duration of the Life of Tathagata', is especially important for its eulogy of sakyamuni as the embodiment of the eternal life and as having attained enlightenment in the inconceivably remote past.

Condition

This copy is in good plus condition. There is a light crease to the spine, and a few lines of verse have been underlined in pen but the whole remaining in strong readable condition.