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Lotus Sutra

The Saddharmapundarika. The sutra that proclaims one vehicle and the universal possibility of buddhahood.

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The Lotus Sutra

The most influential Mahayana sutra in East Asia. The teaching of the One Vehicle, the eternal Buddha, and the universal possibility of buddhahood. Composed c. 1st century BCE to 1st century CE.

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Mahayana

The Great Vehicle — the movement that reframed the Buddhist goal from individual liberation as an arahant to the universal awakening of all beings as a bodhisattva, and reframed the metaphysical ground from analysis of dharmas to the emptiness (sunyata) of all phenomena.

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Nichiren

The thirteenth-century Japanese reform movement of Nichiren (1222–1282), which holds the Lotus Sutra to be the supreme and final teaching of the Buddha and recitation of its title — Namu Myoho Renge Kyo — to contain the entire dharma.

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The Teaching Hills.

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The Sutra of Infinite Meanings — Chapter One: Virtues

A traditional chanting of the first chapter of the Sutra of Infinite Meanings — the text the Buddha is said to have taught immediately before the Lotus Sutra. The slow opening of the Mahayana sweep.

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