The Threefold Lotus Sutra pinyin : fǎ huá sān bù jīng, Jp : Hokke-sambu-kyo) is the composition of three complementary sutras that together form the "three-part Dharma flower sutra":
1. The Innumerable Meanings Sutra Ch : Wú Liáng Yì Jīng, Jp: Muryōgi Kyō), prologue to the Lotus Sutra .
2. The Lotus Sutra
3. The Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra epilogue to the Lotus Sutra . They have been known collectively as the Threefold Lotus Sutra in China and Japan since ancient times.
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References
Katō, Bunnō; Tamura, Yoshirō; Miyasaka, Kōjirō (1993). The Threefold Lotus Sutra: The Sutra of Innumerable Meanings, The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, The Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue (PDF) . Tōkyō: Kōsei Publishing Company. ISBN 4-333-00208-7 the original (PDF) on 2013-10-19. Reeves, Gene (2008). The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic . Somerville, Massachusetts: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0-86171-571-8 Suguro, Shinjō (1998). Introduction to the Lotus Sutra ISBN 0-87573-078-7 OCLC 38842060 . Tiantai Lotus texts ISBN 978-1-886439-45-0 OCLC 786447087 .{{cite book }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )The Lotus sutra : and its opening and closing sutras ISBN 978-4-412-01409-1 OCLC 430950778 .
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