Sacred Sutta Treasury · CBETA T09, no. 262 · Kumārajīva
Saddharmapuṇḍarīka Sūtra (The Lotus Sūtra)
妙法莲华经 · 开示悟入佛之知见的究竟圆融大乘法宝
The Lotus Sutra of the Wonderful Dharma: celebrated across East Asia as the "King of Sutras." It reveals the One Buddha Vehicle (Ekayāna), uniting all provisional teachings, and proclaims that every single conscious being is endowed with the seed of Buddhahood.
Historical context
At Mount Gṛdhrakūṭa (Vulture Peak), surrounding the Buddha were thousands of monks, nuns, bodhisattvas, and celestial kings. The Buddha emitted a beam of pure light from the tuft of white hair between his brows (Ūrṇā), illuminating eighteen thousand worlds across the ten directions, before revealing the supreme One Vehicle.
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- T262 · 妙法蓮華經
CBETA · Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text AssociationConsult the complete named Taishō recension used as the canonical reconstruction anchor.