4-Line Gatha | The Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra

“Those beings who, at a time when the Sugatas (aka Buddhas)
Have passed into nirvāṇa or are present,
Have heard this Dharma teaching’s name:
They will all of them attain enlightenment. - Wonderful Dharma Lotus Flower Sutra

The White Lotus of the Good Dharma, popularly known as the Lotus Sūtra, not only contains one of the fullest expressions of the transcendent nature of the Buddha, but also, through its successive descriptions of astonishing events and its vivid parables, is imbued with a distinctive literary power of its own. The sūtra inspired a devoted following in India, but it is above all in east Asia that it has been particularly popular. There it has been the impetus for a range of exquisite artistic and architectural forms, and indeed, whole traditions of study and practice that thrive to this day. An extensive body of literature, too‍—both scholarly and popular‍—is based upon the sūtra.

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