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• The Transformative Assurance of Universal Buddhahood: A Study of the Lotus Sutra’s Impact on Worldview and Conduct

  

  The verses spoken by Śāriputra at the beginning of Chapter Three of the Lotus Sutra, expressing his profound joy and certainty of attaining unsurpassed enlightenment, serve as a powerful introduction to one of Mahayana Buddhism’s most radical and transformative teachings. His declaration, “I shall become a Buddha without fail. I shall be respected by gods…

  William Altig

  May 8, 2025

  Chapter 3, The Great Teachings of the Lotus of the True Law

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