Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

The Essential Lotus: Selections from the Lotus Sutra

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Hailing from the most authoritative and felicitous version of the sutra, translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in 406 by the great Central Asian scholar-monk Kumarajiva, this abridged edition of Watson's 1993 translation cuts through the sprawling magnitude of the original to focus on the chapters that expound the core ideas of the work and have been the most influential in the later development of Buddhist and East Asian thought.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Release: September 18, 2001

ISBN: 0231125070

ISBN 13: 9780231125079

The Essential Lotus: Selections from the Lotus Sutra

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Hailing from the most authoritative and felicitous version of the sutra, translated from Sanskrit into Chinese in 406 by the great Central Asian scholar-monk Kumarajiva, this abridged edition of Watson's 1993 translation cuts through the sprawling magnitude of the original to focus on the chapters that expound the core ideas of the work and have been the most influential in the later development of Buddhist and East Asian thought.

Language: English

Pages: 192

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Release: September 18, 2001

ISBN: 0231125070

ISBN 13: 9780231125079

More books from Burton Watson

The Lotus Sutra

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Tao Te Ching

4.2/5 ( ratings)

The Book of Chuang Tzu

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Cold Mountain: One Hundred Poems by the t'Ang Poet Han-Shan

4.4/5 ( ratings)

Tao Te Ching

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Records of the Grand Historian: Qin Dynasty

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Han Fei Tzu: Basic Writings

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Xunzi: Basic Writings

3.7/5 ( ratings)

For All My Walking: Free-Verse Haiku of Taneda Santōka with Excerpts from His Diary

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Four Huts: Asian Writings on the Simple Life

From the Country of Eight Islands: An Anthology of Japanese Poetry

4.5/5 ( ratings)

Masaoka Shiki: Selected Poems

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Mo Tzu: Basic Writings

3.3/5 ( ratings)

Basic Writings of Mo Tzu, Hsün Tzu, and Han Fei Tzu

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Columbia Book of Chinese Poetry: From Early Times to the Thirteenth Century

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Ryōkan: Zen Monk-Poet of Japan

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Hsün Tzu: Basic Writings

3.9/5 ( ratings)

The Selected Poems of Du Fu

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Stories of Osaka Life

The Tso Chuan: Selections from China's Oldest Narrative History

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Rate this book!

Write a review?