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The Lotus Sutra (Saddharmapundarika)

Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha

One of the most influential texts of East Asian Buddhism, the basis of the Tiantai/Tendai and Nichiren schools. It proclaims that the different vehicles are "skilful means" (upaya) of a single vehicle leading everyone to buddhahood, and reveals a Buddha whose life is immeasurably long: the Gotama who was born and died would be a pedagogical manifestation. Its parables—the burning house, the prodigal son, the phantom city—are among the most celebrated in religious literature.