The Lotus Sutra Pilgrims Publishing 1 Introduction 79 8

1 Introduction 79   8

is based on his own experiences

It is not enough to point at certain things that are difficult to understand or that appear or happen to be unintelligible we have to establish that they will always remain or are in principle unintelligible

It is not unlikely that the sages or the architects

'I doubt not that the time will come when no one in India will call himself a Sanskrit scholar who cannot construe the hymns of the ancient Rishis of his country

The Lotus Sutra Pilgrims Publishing 1 Introduction 79 8From the Jacket (Chu) Tao sheng stands out in history as a unique and preeminent thinker whose paradigmatic, original ideas paved he way for the advent of Chinese Buddhism, the universality of Buddha nature, which Tao sheng championed at the cost of excommunication, was to become a cornerstone of the Chinese Buddhist ideology. This book presents a comprehensive study of the only complete document by Tao sheng still in existence. The work was composed