Threefold Lotus Sutra

The Threefold Lotus Sutra (法華三部経 pinyin: fǎ huá sān bù jīng, Jp: Hokke-sambu-kyo) is the composition of three complementary sutras that together form the "three-part Dharma flower sutra":^[1][2][3]

1. The Innumerable Meanings Sutra (無量義經 Ch: Wú Liáng Yì Jīng, Jp: Muryōgi Kyō), prologue to the Lotus Sutra.

2. The Lotus Sutra (妙法蓮華經 Ch: Miào Fǎ Lián Huá Jīng, Jp: Myōhō Renge Kyō) itself.

3. The Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue/Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra (普賢經 Ch: Pǔ Xián Jīng, Jp: Fugen Kyō), epilogue to the Lotus Sutra.

They have been known collectively as the Threefold Lotus Sutra in China and Japan since ancient times.^[4]

Notes

1. Reeves 2008, p. 4.
2. Katō, Tamura & Miyasaka 1993, p. x.
3. Suguro 1998, p. 4.
4. Katō, Tamura & Miyasaka 1993, p. xiii.

References

• Katō, Bunnō; Tamura, Yoshirō; Miyasaka, Kōjirō (1993). (PDF). Tōkyō: Kōsei Publishing Company. ISBN 4-333-00208-7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-19.
• Reeves, Gene (2008). The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic. Somerville, Massachusetts: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 978-0-86171-571-8.
• Suguro, Shinjō (1998). Introduction to the Lotus Sutra. Fremont, Calif.: Jain Pub. ISBN 0-87573-078-7. OCLC 38842060.
• Tiantai Lotus texts. Berkeley, California. 2013. ISBN 978-1-886439-45-0. OCLC 786447087.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• The Lotus sutra : and its opening and closing sutras. Tokyo: Soka Gakkai. 2009. ISBN 978-4-412-01409-1. OCLC 430950778.