Saddharma-Pundarika

American  

[suhd-duhr-muh-poon-duhr-ee-kuh] / sʌdˈdʌr mə pʊnˈdʌr i kə /

noun

Buddhism.

1. a Mahayana sutra, forming with its references to Amida and the Bodhisattvas the basis for the doctrine that there is something of Buddha in everyone, so that salvation is universally available: a central text of Mahayana Buddhism.

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Example Sentences

He founded the Saddharma-Pundarika sect, now called Nichiren Shu.

From The Religions of Japan From the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by Griffis, William Elliot

The Chinese text contains transliterations of some mysterious Sanscrit words,— apparently talismanic words,—like those to be seen in Kern's translation of the Saddharma-Pundarika, ch. xxvi.

From In Ghostly Japan by Hearn, Lafcadio