“Parable of the Medicinal Herbs” (Yakusōyu), Chapter 5 of the Lotus Sutra (Saddharma pundarika)

Of the numerous sutras (Buddhist texts) brought to Japan, the Lotus Sutra (Japanese: Myōhō-renge-kyō; Sanskrit: Saddharma-pundarika sutra) became the most popular and influential. ...

Printed during the twelfth century, this scroll, together with the seven others from the set, contain the text of the Lotus Sutra (Chinese, Miaofa Lianhua Jing; Sanskrit, Saddharma...

Painted with ink and colored pigments on paper, this magnificent eight-panel folding screen boasts a continuous scene of a lotus pond with tall, luxuriant stalks of lotus flowers, ...

This sutra fragment (mounted as a hanging scroll) is a remnant of a set thought to have been originally dedicated to the temple Senpukuji in Osaka. The text comes from the Flower O...

Originally a section of a handscroll, or possibly a page from an accordion-fold album, this calligraphic work represents text from a Buddhist sutra, specifically, text from the Ksi...

This sculpture depicts a Buddha gracefully standing on a shallow lotus pedestal, the Buddha likely the Buddha Sakyamuni (the Historical Buddha) though possibly the Buddha Dipankara...

This eight-lobed, circular mirror has a narrow raised outer rim that is completely unembellished. This gives way to a wide inner decorative border that's slightly sunken and embel...

Elaborately decorated jar with trumpet-shaped mouth, cylindrical neck, ovoid body, and six loop handles at the juncture of the neck and shoulders; thick lotus-petal and five-leaf-p...