Translated from: Miaofa lianhuajing by Kumarajiva. - Includes index
Inhalt: Translator's Introduction -- Translator's Note -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Expedient Means -- 3. Simile and Parable -- 4. Belief and Understanding -- 5. The Parable of the Medicinal Herbs -- 6. Bestowal of Prophecy -- 7. The Parable of the Phantom City -- 8. Prophecy of Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples -- 9. Prophecies Conferred on Learners and Adepts -- 10. The Teacher of the Law -- 11. The Emergence of the Treasure Tower -- 12. Devadatta -- 13. Encouraging Devotion -- 14. Peaceful Practices -- 15. Emerging from the Earth -- 16. The Life Span of the Thus Come One -- 17. Distinctions in Benefits -- 18. The Benefits of Responding with Joy -- 19. Benefits of the Teacher of the Law -- 20. The Bodhisattva Never Disparaging -- 21. Supernatural Powers of the Thus Come One -- 22. Entrustment -- 23. Former Affairs of the Bodhisattva Medicine King -- 24. The Bodhisattva Wonderful Sound -- 25. The Universal Gateway of the Bodhisattva Perceiver of the World's Sounds -- 26. Dharani -- 27. Former Affairs of King Wonderful Adornment -- 28. Encouragements of the Bodhisattva Universal Worthy -- Glossary -- Index
