Lotus Sutra - Milestone Documents

Lotus Sutra

( ca. 100 BCE–200 CE )

Further Reading

Books

  • Cole, Alan. Text as Father: Paternal Seductions in Early Mahayana Buddhist Literature. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
  • Leighton, Taigen Dan. Visions of Awakening Space and Time: Dogen and the Lotus Sutra. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Niwano Nikkyo. Buddhism for Today: A Modern Interpretation of the Threefold Lotus Sutra, trans Kojiro Miyasaka. Tokyo: Kosei, 1976.
  • Pye, Michael. Skilful Means: A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism. 2nded. London: Routledge, 2003.
  • Reeves, Gene, ed. A Buddhist Kaleidoscope: Essays on the Lotus Sutra. Tokyo: Kosei, 2002.
  • Tanabe, George J., Jr., and Willa Jane Tanabe, eds. The Lotus Sutra in JapaneseCulture. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
  • Tanabe, Willa Jane. Paintings of the Lotus Sutra. New York: Weatherhill, 1988.
  • Teiser, Stephen F., and Jacqueline I. Stone, eds. Readings of the Lotus Sutra. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.
  • Wang, Eugene Y. Shaping the Lotus Sutra: Buddhist Visual Culture in Medieval China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007.
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