CONTENTS

	INTRODUCTION	1
CHAPTER 1	Plot Summary	12
CHAPTER 2	The Lotus Sūtra in India	21
CHAPTER 3	The Lotus Sūtra in China	43
CHAPTER 4	The Lotus Sūtra in Japan	65
CHAPTER 5	Across the Atlantic	116
CHAPTER 6	The Lotus Sūtra in the Twentieth Century	179
CHAPTER 7	Across the Pacific	208
	NOTES	223
	INDEX	243