Lotus Sutra - Milestone Documents

Lotus Sutra

( ca. 100 BCE–200 CE ) Commentary by James Mark Shields, Bucknell University

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Nothing is known about the authors of the Lotus Sutra. Given the content of the text, however, scholars assume that they were monks associated with the Mahayana Buddhist movement. The Lotus Sutra as it is known today is a pastiche of several distinct works, written at different times by different people for different purposes over a period of several centuries.

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