Threefold Lotus Sutra

The Threefold Lotus Sutra (法華三部経 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][2][3]

1. The Innumerable Meanings Sutra (無量義經 Ch: Wú Liáng Yì Jīng, Jp: Muryōgi Kyō), prologue to the Lotus Sutra.

2. The Lotus Sutra (妙法蓮華經 Ch: Miào Fǎ Lián Huá Jīng, Jp: Myōhō Renge Kyō) itself.

3. The Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue/Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra (普賢經 Ch: Pǔ Xián Jīng, Jp: Fugen Kyō), epilogue to the Lotus Sutra.

They have been known collectively as the Threefold Lotus Sutra in China and Japan since ancient times.[4]

Notes

1. Reeves 2008, p. 4
2. Katō et al. 1993, p. x harvnb error: no target: CITEREFKatō_et_al.1993 (help)
3. Suguro 1998, p. 4 harvnb error: no target: CITEREFSuguro1998 (help)
4. Katō et al. 1993, p. xiii harvnb error: no target: CITEREFKatō_et_al.1993 (help)

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. Archived from the original on 2013-10-19.CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
• Reeves, Gene (2008). The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic. Somerville: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0-86171-571-8.
• Suguro, Shinjo; Nichiren Buddhist International Center, trans. (1998). Introduction to the Lotus Sutra, Fremont, Calif.: Jain Publishing Company. ISBN 0875730787; p. 4
• Tsugunari Kubo, Joseph Logan (transl.), Tiantai Lotus Texts, Berkeley, Numata Center for Buddhist Translation and Research, 2013. ISBN 978-1-886439-45-0 (Infinite Meanings Sutra, Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue)
• Watson, Burton (tr.). The Lotus Sutra and Its Opening and Closing Chapters. Tokyo: Soka Gakkai 2009. ISBN 978-4-412-01409-1