RELIGST 3UU3 Chapter 1: ASSIGNED READING - WEEK 3 - LOTUS SUTRA - INTRODUCTION
15 Feb 2017
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Location: city of king"s house (rajagrha), grdhrakuta mountain. 12,000 bhiksus who were arhants (enlightened, but not buddhas: sutra proceeds to list names. 80,000 bodhisattva-mahasattvas: goes on to describe them; praised by buddhas, names some. Sakro devanam indrah, with 20,000 followers who are sons of gods: two: isvara and mahesvara had a further 30,000 sons of gods for followers. Some of them had 12,000 sons of gods. 8 dragon kings: several hundreds of thousands of followers. Four kinnara (half horse, half man: laws, also with several hundreds of thousands of followers. Four demigods: pleasant, pleasant sound, beautiful, beautiful sound, also with several hundred thousand followers. Preached a scripture of the great vehicle named the immeasurable doctrin (anantanirdesa) When he enters samadhi: heaven rains down flowers (coral tree, great, celestial, mahamanjusaka, world trembled in 6 different ways. The audience never experienced this but were joyed and joined hands (beholding the.
