Since its appearance in China in the third century, The Lotus Sutra has been regarded as one of the most illustrious scriptures in the Mahayana Buddhist canon. The object of intense veneration among generations of Buddhists in China, Korea, Japan, and other parts of the world, it has had a p...more
Dr. Burton Dewitt Watson (Ph.D., Columbia University, 1956) was a Professor of Chinese at Columbia and Stanford Universities. Among his many awards is the PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation for his long and prolific career in Chinese, Japanese, and English languages....more
