[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Mahāyāna sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra) › [Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika) › [妙法蓮華經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva) › [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva~en-mt) › 1.15 # 妙法蓮華經 1.15 English (machine translation) 1.15 - **Language:** English ### [1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva~en-mt.1.15) At that time, the Bhagavat was surrounded by the fourfold assembly, revered, honored, respected, and praised. For the sake of the bodhisattvas, he expounded the Mahāyāna sūtra entitled Innumerable Meanings, a teaching for bodhisattvas and protected and remembered by the Buddhas. After the Buddha had spoken this sūtra, he sat cross-legged and entered the samādhi of the state of innumerable meanings, unmoving in body and mind. At that time, the heavens rained down māndārava flowers, mahāmāndārava flowers, mañjūṣaka flowers, and mahāmañjūṣaka flowers, scattering them over the Buddha and the great assembly. The universal Buddha-worlds shook in six ways. At that time, the bhikṣus, bhikṣuṇīs, upāsakas, upāsikās, devas, nāgas, yakṣas, gandharvas, asuras, garuḍas, kinnaras, mahoragas, humans, non-humans, as well as minor kings and wheel-turning sagely kings in the assembly—all this great assembly—attained what they had never had before, and rejoicing with joined palms, they single-mindedly gazed at the Buddha. - [Previous: 1.14](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva~en-mt.1.14) - [Next: 1.16](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva~en-mt.1.16) - [Up: 1](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva~en-mt.1) ## Translations (2) - [The Lotus Sutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva~en-bdk.1.15) — Tsugunari Kubo & Akira Yuyama 2007, English - [The Lotus of the Wonderful Law, or The Lotus Gospel (Miao-fa lien hua ching)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva~en-soothill.1.p3) — English ## Linked texts (1) - [妙法蓮華經](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva.1.15) — Classical Chinese --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva~en-mt.1.15](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.mahayanasutra.saddharmapundarika*zh-kumarajiva~en-mt.1.15) · Pramāṇa