Contents

Preface

Part One
The Sutra of Innumerable Meanings

Background

1. Virtues

2. Preaching

3. The Ten Merits

Part Two
The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law

1. Introductory

2. Tactfulness

3. A Parable

4. Faith Discernment

5. The Parable of the Herbs

6. Prediction

7. The Parable of the Magic City

8. The Five Hundred Disciples Receive the Prediction of Their Destiny

9. Prediction of the Destiny of Arhats, Training and Trained

10. A Teacher of the Law

11. Beholding the Precious Stupa

12. Devadatta

13. Exhortation to Hold Firm

14. A Happy Life

15. Springing Up out of the Earth

16. Revelation of the [Eternal] Life of the Tathagata

17. Discrimination of Merits

18. The Merits of Joyful Acceptance

19. The Merits of the Preacher

20. The Bodhisattva Never Despise

21. The Divine Power of the Tathagata

22. The Final Commission

23. The Story of the Bodhisattva Medicine King

24. The Bodhisattva Wonder Sound

25. The All-Sidedness of the Bodhisattva Regarder of the Cries of the World

26. Dharanis

27. The Story of King Resplendent

28. Encouragement of the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue

Part Three
The Sutra of Meditation on
the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue

The Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue