Threefold Lotus Sutra
by Bunno Kato
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Author: Bunno KatoEdition: Paperback
Audio: Japanese (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1989-12-15
ISBN: 4333002087
Number of pages: 404
Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co
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Book Review: Kalpas and kotis and celestial jewels from heaven
Summary: 4 Stars
About 80% of this text involves long, repetitive descriptions of other worlds and vast myriads of infinite beings acting on a scale of kalpas and kotis. A kalpa is the time it takes for a physical universe to appear and disappear. They come in three durations. A small kalpa is the time it would take for a ten-mile square city covered in poppy seeds to be clean of them if one seed were removed every three years or, alternately, the time required to wear away a ten-mile cubic block of stone if a young woman brushes her dress against it every three years. A koti represents ten million or more, and kalpas are discussed in terms of many kotis or longer. Jewel flowers, celestial flowers and the like fall from heavens for extended periods of time, and myriads of kotis of bodhisattvas attend the Buddha's words and meditate for multiples of kalpas.
Dharma is translated as Law, and the translation also gives the Buddha as being eternal in several places; this jibes uneasily with correct middle way teachings. I had the impression that the translation comes from a Westernized point of view concerning theological matters and never quite escapes.
The sutras contain many words of many blessings accruing to those who read and keep them, and terrible damnations accruing to those who misrepresent them or cause harm to those who engage the teachings.
In here we have the dharma of all vehicles being the great vehicle, the bodhisattva vehicle, and the Buddha tactfully adjusting his teachings according to the capacity of the hearer.
The time required for achieving buddhahood is explained in terms of many kalpas, even to beings already bodhisattvas, with the exception of the eight year old daughter of a dragon, who attained it quite quickly, apparently the only reference to a female achieving Buddhahood in Buddhist sutras. Though it may take a long time, Buddhahood is achievable. The future Buddhahood of many beings is predicted by the World-Honored One, Buddha, in the sutras.
Also, in the first sutra, The Sutra of Innumerable Meanings, middle section, we have the teaching that the dharma is empty.
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