01833cam a2200289 c 45000010008000000030004000080050017000120070003000290080041000320100017000730200018000900400028001080410018001360820017001541300078001712450052002492640050003013000029003513360026003803370028004063380027004344400041004615000020005025200938005227000044014607000039015043924683OSt20260810091838.0ta921007s1993    nyu           001 0 eng    a   92038410   a9780231081610  aDLCcDLCdDLCbengerda1 aenghchihsan00a294.3/822200 aTripiṭaka.pSūtrapiṭaka.pSaddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra.lEnglish14aThe Lotus Sutra /ctranslated by Burton Watson.  aNew York :bColumbia University Press,c1993.  axxix, 359 pages ;c23 cm  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier 0aTranslations from the Asian classics  aIncludes index.  aSince its appearance in China in the third century, The Lotus Sutra has been regarded as one of the most illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana Buddhist canon. The object of intense veneration among generations of Buddhists in China, Korea, Japan, and other parts of the world, it has had a profound impact on the great works of Japanese and Chinese literature, attracting more commentary than any other Buddhist scripture. As Watson notes in the introduction to his remarkable translation, " The Lotus Sutra is not so much an integral work as a collection of religious texts, an anthology of sermons, stories, and devotional manuals, some speaking with particular force to persons of one type or in one set of circumstances, some to those of another type or in other circumstances. This is no doubt why it has had such broad and lasting appeal over the ages and has permeated so deeply into the cultures that have been exposed to it1 aWatson, Burton,d1925-2017.etranslator0 aKumārajīva,d-412?etranslator