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Since its appearance in China in the third century The Lotus Sutra has beenregarded as one of the most illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana Buddhistcanon. The object of intense veneration among generations of Buddhists inChina Korea Japan and other parts of the world it has had a profound impacton the great works of Japanese and Chinese literature attracting morecommentary than any other Buddhist scripture.As Watson notes in the introduction to his remarkable translation The LotusSutra is not so much an integral work as a collection of religious texts ananthology of sermons stories and devotional manuals some speaking withparticular force to persons of one type or in one set of circumstances some tothose of another type or in other circumstances. This is no doubt why it hashad such broad and lasting appeal over the ages and has permeated so deeplyinto the cultures that have been exposed to it. «
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