540 pages ; 23 cm; Foreword /Nichikō Niwano --Introduction /Gene Reeves --The threefold Lotus Sutra: an introduction /Nikkyō Niwano --The innumerable meanings of the Lotus Sutra /Paul L. Swanson --Organic truth: personal reflections on the Lotus Sutra /David W. Chappell --Somatic realization of the Lotus Sutra /Taitetsu Unno --Visual piety and the Lotus Sutra in Japan /Willa Jane Tanabe --Considering the Lotus Sutra /John H. Berthrong --The Lotus Sutra and interreligious dialogue /Schubert M. Ogden --Upāya and Missio Dei: toward a common missiology /Michael A. Fuss --By the power of the Buddha /Malcolm David Eckel --Reflections on the threefold Lotus Sutra /John R.A. Mayer --The Lotus Sutra and the dimension of time /J. Douglas Wolfe --The length of life of the Tathāgata /Michael Pye --The Lotus Sutra as radically world-affirming /Gene Reeves --A tale of two times: preacing in the latter age of the dharma /Jamie Hubbard --Between duration and eternity: hermeneutics of the 'ancient Buddha' of the Lotus Sutra in Chih-i and Nichiren /Lucia Dolce --Chih-i and the subtle dharma of the Lotus Sutra: emptiness or Buddha-nature? /Susan Mattis --When disobedience is filial and resistance is loyal: the Lotus Sutra and social obligations in the medieval Nichiren tradition /Jacqueline I. Stone --The Lotus Sutra in the writings of Kenji Miyazawa /Steve Odin --Echoes of the Lotus Sutra in Tolstoy's philosophy /Alexander Ignatovich --Buddha-body theory and the Lotus Sutra: implications for praxis /Ruben L.F. Habito --How has the Lotus Sutra created social movements? The relationship of the Lotus Sutra to the Mahāparinirvāṇa-sūtra /Masahiro Shimoda --A Buddha teaches only bodhisattvas /Riccardo Venturini --A Buddhist path to mending the world /Harold Kasimow --Ethics and the Lotus Sutra /Peggy Morgan --Paternalism in the Lotus Sutra /Damien Keown --Appropriate means as the ethics of the Lotus Sutra /Gene Reeves --A Buddhist approach to the ecological crisis: the historical consciousness in Nichiren /Michio T. Shinozaki --The Lotus Sutra and health care ethics /Robert E. Florida --Social responsibility, sex change, and salvation: gender justice in the Lotus Sutra /Lucinda Joy Peach --Is the Lotus Sutra "good news" for women? /Miriam Levering.; 

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