Yang Ning’s Lectures on <the Lotus Sutra>

What is the Lotus Sutra about? The status and value ofthe Lotus Sutra in Buddhism

The significance of the Lotus Sutra for modern sentient beings

Preface

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Expedient Means

Chapter 3: Simile and Parable

Chapter 4: Belief and Understanding

Chapter 5: The Parable of the Medicinal Herbs

Chapter 6: Bestowal of Prophecy

Chapter 7: The Parable of the Conjured City

Chapter 8: Prophecy of Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples

Chapter 9: Prophecies Transmitted to Those Who Have Nothing More to Learn and Those Who Still Have More to Learn / Chapter 10: The Teacher of the Law

Chapter 11: The Appearance of the Treasured Tower

Chapter 12: Devadatta

Chapter 13: Encouragement to Uphold the Sutra

Chapter 14: Peaceful Practices

Chapter 15: Emerging from the Earth

Chapter 16: The Life Span of the Tathagata

Chapter 17: Distinction of Merits / Chapter 18 & 19

Chapter 20: Never Disparaging Bodhisattva

Chapter 21: The Spiritual Powers of the Tathagata / Chapter 22: Entrustment

Chapter 23: Former Affairs of Medicine King Bodhisattva

Chapter 24: Gadgadasvara Bodhisattva

Chapter 25: The Universal Gateway of Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva

Chapter 26: Dharani

Chapter 27: Former Affairs of King Wonderful Adornment

Chapter 28: Encouragement of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra(Part 1)

Chapter 28: Encouragement of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra(Part 2)

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