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Uniform Title Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra. English.
Title Scripture of the lotus blossom of the fine dharma (the Lotus sūtra) / translated from the Chinese of Kumārajīva by Leon Hurvitz.

Imprint New York : Columbia University Press, ©2009.

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Location Call No. Status
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  294.385 HURVITZ    Check Shelf
Edition Rev. ed.
Description xxviii, 384 pages ; 23 cm.
Series Translations from the Asian classics
Translations from the Asian classics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Saddharmapuṇḍarīka-sūtra.
Mahayana Buddhism.
Mahayana Buddhism. (OCoLC)fst01005972
Übersetzung.
Englisch.
Added Author Hurvitz, Leon, 1923-
ISBN 9780231148948 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0231148941 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780231148955 (pbk.)
023114895X (pbk.)
Standard No. 40017223830
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