Threefold Lotus Sutra
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The Threefold Lotus Sutra (Chinese: 法華三部經, pinyin: Fǎhuá Sānbù Jīng, rōmaji: Hokke Sambu Kyo) is the composition of three complementary sutras that together form the "three-part Dharma flower sutra":{{sfn|Reeves|2008|p=4}}{{sfn|Katō|Tamura|Miyasaka|1993|p=x}}{{sfn|Suguro|1998|p=4}}
:1. The Innumerable Meanings Sutra (無量義經 Ch: Wúliàngyì Jīng, Jp: Muryōgi Kyō), prologue to the Lotus Sutra.
:2. The Lotus Sutra (妙法蓮華經 Ch: Miàofǎ Liánhuá Jīng, Jp: Myōhō Renge Kyō) itself.
:3. The Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue/Samantabhadra Meditation Sutra (普賢經 Ch: Pǔxián Jīng, Jp: Fugen Kyō), epilogue to the Lotus Sutra.
They have been known collectively as the Threefold Lotus Sutra in China and Japan since ancient times.{{sfn|Katō|Tamura|Miyasaka|1993|p=xiii}}
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- {{Cite book |last1=Katō |first1=Bunnō |url=http://www.rk-world.org/publications/ThreefoldLotusSutra.pdf |title=The Threefold Lotus Sutra: The Sutra of Innumerable Meanings, The Sutra of the Lotus Flower of the Wonderful Law, The Sutra of Meditation on the Bodhisattva Universal Virtue |last2=Tamura |first2=Yoshirō |last3=Miyasaka |first3=Kōjirō |publisher=Kōsei Publishing Company |year=1993 |isbn=4-333-00208-7 |location=Tōkyō |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019124924/http://www.rk-world.org/publications/ThreefoldLotusSutra.pdf |archive-date=2013-10-19}}
- {{Cite book |last=Reeves |first=Gene |title=The Lotus Sutra: A Contemporary Translation of a Buddhist Classic |date=2008 |publisher=Wisdom Publications |isbn=978-0-86171-571-8 |location=Somerville, Massachusetts}}
- {{Cite book |last=Suguro |first=Shinjō |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38842060 |title=Introduction to the Lotus Sutra |date=1998 |publisher=Jain Pub |isbn=0-87573-078-7 |location=Fremont, Calif. |oclc=38842060}}
- {{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/786447087 |title=Tiantai Lotus texts. |date=2013 |isbn=978-1-886439-45-0 |location=Berkeley, California |oclc=786447087}}
- {{Cite book |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430950778 |title=The Lotus sutra : and its opening and closing sutras |date=2009 |publisher=Soka Gakkai |isbn=978-4-412-01409-1 |location=Tokyo |oclc=430950778}}
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