01489nam a22002057a 4500 20221221112928.0 221221b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0231081618 AL English 23 294.382 WATL Burton Watson 67202 Lotus Sutra New York Columbia University Press 1993 xxix,361 p. PB 22.7x15 cm. Translations from the Asian classics 67203 Since 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 it." WATSON (Burton) Tr 67204 ddc DB 225992 225992 0 0 ddc 0 0 OTH AL AL 2014-12-01 0 294.382 WATL D05379 2022-12-21 00:00:00 2022-12-21 DB Donated by V. T. Rajshekar