A Guide to the Threefold Lotus Sutra

This concise, readily understandable book is designed as a guide to one of the supreme scriptures of Mahayana Buddhism: the Threefold Lotus Sutra. With careful consideration of the relationships among the 32 chapters, the author outlines the contents and explains the major points.
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Reproduced on the front cover is a portion of the frontispiece for the twentieth chapter of the Lotus Sutra painted in gold and silver by Ryusen Miyahara to be mounted with one of the handwritten scrolls of the Threefold Lotus Sutra copied by Nikkyo Niwano. Used by permission of Nikkyo Niwano.
This text originally appeared in Japanese in volume ten of Shinshaku Hokke-sambu-kyo (A New Interpretation of the Threefold Lotus Sutra) and later as the book Hokke-sambu- kyo Nyumon (A Guide to the Threefold Lotus Sutra).
Edited by Ralph Friedrich. Cover design by Nobu Miyazaki. Book design and typography by Rebecca M. Davis. The text of this book is set in Monotype Baskerville with hand-set Bodoni Bold for display.