Mahayana (大乘) means 'great vehicle.' Mahayana Buddhists criticized the existing sectarian Buddhism by calling it 'Hinayana (小乘),' meaning 'lesser vehicle.' To use an analogy, Hinayana Buddhism is like ...

(The Conversation) — For many Buddhists today, both in East Asia and across the world, the Lotus Sutra offers religious support for various gender identities. (The Conversation) — State legislatures ...

A Lotus Sutra scroll praising the manifold mercies of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Universal Gateway chapter of the Lotus Sutra/Calligrapher: Sugawara Mitsushige/The Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

New Delhi, May 4 (PTI) The Gilgit Lotus Sutra manuscript an ancient scripture containing the teachings of Buddha and discovered by cattle grazers inside a Buddhist stupa in 1931 has now been released ...

The Cultural Heritage Administration (CHA) unveiled on Thursday a Goryeo-era transcribed manuscript of a Buddhist scripture known as Saddharmapundarika Sutra (Lotus Sutra), which recently returned to ...

An academic book offering a modern perspective on the ideal society through the Buddhist scripture, the Lotus Sutra, has been published and is attracting attention. This book goes beyond a simple ...

Wong (third from right) opening the ceremony while (from second left) Koseki, Prof Dzulkifli and Koh look on. AN organisation is hosting a special exhibition in Johor Baru highlighting teachings from ...

The lotus is a plant of the water lily family. It is one of the most common motifs in Buddhist temples. Indeed, depictions of the flowers are found almost everywhere, from paintings and statues of the ...

The National Taiwan Library’s book hospital has recently completed repairing a set of Lotus Sutra (法華經) books donated by Dharma Master Cheng Yen (證嚴) which are more than a century old. National Taiwan ...