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Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:00 am
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: questions regarding the Lotus Sutra
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Re: questions regarding the Lotus Sutra

Thanks for all the replies! So basically the house is ment to represent the defiled mind and not the material world? Being a recent convert to mahayana buddhism i generally know more about the pali texts and not that much about the mahayana ones. *Gene Reeves' translation attempts to rope in traditi...
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Wed Oct 02, 2013 1:33 pm
Forum: Sūtra Studies
Topic: questions regarding the Lotus Sutra
Replies: 7
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questions regarding the Lotus Sutra

While being fascinated with the Lotus Sutra i found some things in the text confusing. Maybe a dharma teacher can make some things clear for me. The parable of the burning house. The father is the buddha, the children are all living beings in the threefold world, the flames are the passions. These p...

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