Saddharma-Pundarika

[ suhd-duhr-muh-poon-duhr-ee-kuh ]

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.

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

These five periods above mentioned can scarcely be called historical in the proper sense of the term, yet they are ingeniously invented by Ten Dai Dai Shi to set the Buddhist Scriptures in the order of doctrinal development, and place Saddharma-pundarika in the highest rank among the Mahayana books.

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