Lotus Sutra

British  

noun

1. a central scripture of Mahayana Buddhism, emphasizing that anyone can attain enlightenment

---

Example Sentences

One of the texts here, a 12th-century rendering of part of what’s known as the Lotus Sutra, shows an unusual variation in the thickness of the lines.

From Washington Post

Other objects include a copy of the Lotus Sutra in a lavishly decorated scroll, written in gold and silver ink, and a Chinese illustrated manuscript of the Guanyin Sutra, which dates from the 9th-10th centuries and has a rare early depiction of a woman giving birth.

From The Guardian

The most popular Buddhist scripture of Murasaki’s day was the Lotus Sutra.

From Washington Post

By the late 12th century, the influence of Genji was already such that a new kind of Lotus Sutra emerged with the specific aim of rescuing its author from hell for, as McCormickwrites in the catalogue, “having succumbed to the lure of seductive fictions.”

From Washington Post

It’s not clear whether one of the most precious works in the show, a Lotus Sutra from Nara, Japan — designated a Japanese National Treasure — is a specifically “Genji”-related sutra, one that combined excerpts from “Genji” with scripture from the sutra.

From Washington Post