urges Soya Kyoshin to recite both a portion of the “Expedient Means” chapter and the verse section of the “Life Span” chapter, the two key chapters of the Lotus Sutra, in his daily prayers. He also states that each char
acter of the Lotus Sutra is in fact a living Buddha of supreme enlightenment. Therefore, to uphold and recite this sutra is to uphold the body of the Buddha— that is, to attain Buddhahood in one’s present form.
1. Lotus Sutra, chap. 11.
2. A sutra translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by Prajna of the T’ang dynasty. It explains in detail the six kinds of practices,
or “perfections” (Skt paramita), that bodhisattvas must carry out in order to attain enlightenment.
