Our Lotus Sutra Chant Book 2nd Edition is now available!
The Lotus Sutra is one of the most important and influential Mahayana Buddhist texts and is the main sutra of our tradition. This beautiful sutra showcases the grand and cosmic imagery of the Lotus Sutra, the Buddhas, bodhisattvas, and dozens of other enlightened beings, of heavenly and hellish beings – demonstrating the immeasurable reach of this sutra.
The second edition of this abridged sutra chant book is edited and organized to make the chanting sessions easier and more fluid, as well as improving other cosmetic changes.
You can now purchase your own copy in hardcover, hardcover with linen wrap, paperback, coil bound, and ebook. All purchases help us print these chant books for temple services
The Lotus Sūtra (Sanskrit: Saddharma Puṇḍarīka Sūtram, lit. ’Sūtra on the White Lotus of the True Dharma’; traditional Chinese: 法華經; simplified Chinese: 法华经; pinyin: Fǎhuá jīng; lit. ‘Dharma Flower Sutra’) is one of the most influential and venerated Buddhist Mahāyāna sūtras.
Two central teachings of the Lotus Sūtra have been very influential for Mahāyāna Buddhism. The first is the doctrine of the One Vehicle, which says that all Buddhist paths and practices lead to Buddhahood and so they are all actually “skillful means” of reaching Buddhahood. The second is the idea that the lifespan of the Buddha is immeasurable and that therefore, he did not really pass on into final Nirvana (he only appeared to do so as upāya), but is still active teaching the Dharma.