Here is a good intro book to get you started on the Lotus Sutra:nichiren-123 wrote: ↑Tue Nov 13, 2018 3:19 pm
I've read the diamond sutra and synopses of the other two. I don't have time to read them. The LS is 500 odd pages and the FG is over 1000
How am I supposed to understand a 2000 year old text, written in an ancient language, full of Buddhist cosmology I don't understand?
Commentaries have been written on these sutra's that get to the heart of the matter in a much easier format to digest...
The Lotus Sūtra : a biography
Lopez, Donald S., Jr., 1952-
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2016]
Paul Swanson reviews it here to give you some idea of the content:
https://www.lionsroar.com/the-life-of-the-lotus-sutra/
And here are some free chapters of a commentary on the Lotus Sutra by Ven. Hsuan Hua
http://online.sfsu.edu/rone/Buddhism/BT ... /Lotus.htm
you can buy the book here: http://www.cttbusa.org/cttb/bkstore.asp
there is also : The profound meaning of the Lotus sutra : ̕T ien-̕tai philosophy of Buddhism
Haiyan Shen.
Educa Books/ D.K (July 16, 2007)
it includes an outline of Ven. Zhiyi's great work; Profound Meaning of the Lotus Sutra (法華玄義 Fahua Xuanyi).
gassho
Rory