title: Drama of Cosmic Enlightenment: Parables, Myths, and Symbols of the White Lotus Sutra
author:  Sangharakshita 
description: <div>A respected translator and author of over fifty books, Sangharakshita began studying BUddhism at the age of 16. After 20 years studying in India he returned to England and set up the Friends of the Western Buddhist Order which has over 65 centres worldwide, including the USA.</div>
zlib_text: THE
  SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST
  [21]
  
  Honfcon
  HENRY FROWDE
  OXFORD
  UNIVERSITY
  PRESS
  'WAREHOUSE
  AMEN COENEE
  
  THE
  SACRED BOOKS OF THE EAST
  TRANSLATED
  BY VARIOUS ORIENTAL SCHOLARS
  AND EDITED BY
  F. MAX MULLER
  VOL. XXI
  AT
  THE
  CLARENDON
  PRESS
  1884
  N
  [All rights reserved'}
  
  THE
  SADDHARMA-PUMMRIKA
  OR
  THE
  LOTUS
  OF THE TRUE LAW
  TRANSLATED
  BY
  H. KERN
  AT THE CLARENDON
  PRESS
  1884
  [All rights reserved]
  
  CONTENTS.
  PAGE
  INTRODUCTION
  ix
  CHAPTER
  1.
  Introductory
  ....
  .
  .
  .
  i
  2.
  Skilfulness .......
  30
  3.
  A Parable
  .
  .
  60
  4.
  Disposition
  98
  5.
  On Plants
  .
  .
  .
  .
  .
  .
  .
  118
  6.
  Announcement of Future Destiny
  .
  .
  .142
  7.
  Ancient Devotion
  .
  .
  .
  .
  153
  8.
  Announcement of the Future Destiny of the
  Five Hundred Monks
  .
  .
  .
  .191
  9.
  Announcement
  of
  the
  Future
  Destiny
  of
  A
  Ananda, RShula, and the Two Thousand
  Monks .......
  205
  10.
  The Preacher ...
  .
  .
  .213
  11.
  Apparition of a Stupa
  .
  ..
  .
  .
  227
  12.
  Exertion
  .
  .
  .
  .
  .
  .
  .
  255
  *
  13.
  Peaceful Life .......
  262
  14.
  Issuing of Bodhisattvas from the Gaps of the
  Earth
  .
  .
  .
  .
  .
  .
  .