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From: kde@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov ( Keith Evans)
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Subject: Re: Buddha's names
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Date: 28 Nov 90 01:59:28 GMT
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In <1990Nov26.065914.8987@nas.nasa.gov> hms@princeton.edu (Hsing-Mean Sha) writes:

>In the Chinese Buddhist Sutras I have read, there are always use ten titles of
>them by meaning not by pronunciation).
>Let me try to explain them in English (as you know my english is poor).

>(1) Tathagata : This is the most popular title beside Buddha in China.

>(10) Buddha-lokanatha or Bhagavan : This title is also very popular. The
>meaning is: world's most venerable.

Try these for the English:

1) the core of the 16th chapter (of the Lotus Sutra) of the essential 
    teaching

2) the supreme Law hidden in the depths of the Lotus Sutra,

3) the inscrutable essence of the universe,

4) The perfect fusion of wisdom and reality,

5) the entity of kuon ganjo (this moment, which extends to all moments)

6) the entity of the Buddha of absolute freedom,

7) the eternal manifestation of the ten worlds (life-conditions)

8) the embodiment of ichinen sanzen (3000 life-conditions in a single moment)

9) the oneness of Person and Law,

10) the Dai-Gohonzon enshrined in the High Sanctuary of True Buddhism 
     (Tai-sekiji, the Head Temple of Nichiren Shoshu in Japan).


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  	         Keith Evans		kde@heawk1.gsfc.nasa.gov