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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A Legend of Fugen-Bosatsu THERE was once a very pious and learned priest, called Shoku Shonin, who lived in the province of Harima. For many years he meditated daily upon the chapter of Fugen- Bosatsu the Bodhisattva Samantabhadra] in the Sutra of the Lotos of the Good Law; and he used to pray, every morning and evening, that he might at some time be permitted to behold Fugen-Bosatsu as a living presence, and in the form described in the holy text.1 1 The priest's desire was probably inspired by the promises recorded in the chapter entitled The Encouragement of Samantabhadra (see Kern's translation of the Saddharma Pundarika in the Sacred Books of the East, ? pp. 433-434): ? Then the Bodhisattva Mahasattva Samantabhadra said to the Lord: . . . 'When a preacher who applies himself to this Dharmaparyaya shall take a walk, then, O Lord, will I mount a white elephant with six tusks, and betake myself to the place where that preacher is walking, in order to protect this Dharmaparyaya. And, when that preacher, applying himself to this Dharma- parytya, forgets, be it but a single word or syllable, then will I mount the white elephant, with six tusks, and show my face to that preacher, and repeat this entire Dharma- paryjya. ? But these promises refer to the end of time. One evening, while he was reciting the Sutra, drowsiness overcame him; and he fell asleep leaning upon his kyosoku.1 Then he dreamed; and in his dream a voice told him that, in order to see Fugen-Bosatsu, he must go to the house of a certain courtesan, known as the Yujo-no- Choja, who lived in the town of Kanzaki. Immediately upon awakening he resolved to go to Kanzaki; ? and, making all possible haste, he reached the town by the evening of the next day. When he entered the house of the yujo, he fou...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217555388 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217555381 |
| Weight | 0.46 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.31 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 134 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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