法華遊意 1.213

1.213

To propagate the Lotus Sūtra, Bodhisattva Gadgadasvara came and magically manifested eighty-four thousand jeweled lotuses, with jambūnada-gold stems, white silver leaves, diamond stamens, and kiṃśuka gems as their calyxes; thus we know that they were white lotuses. Since the eighty-four thousand teachings are all subsumed into the Lotus Sūtra, now, wishing to indicate the propagation of the White Lotus Sūtra, he first manifested the sign of white flowers.