< Site Top The Record of the Orally Transmitted Teachings Contents Skip to Chapter Table (Press Enter). Foreword Introduction: The Life of Nichiren Introduction: Note on the Ongi kuden Editors’ Note TEXTS Nam-myoho-renge-kyo 3 PART ONE The Lotus Sutra: 1 “Introduction” chapter: seven important points 9 2 “Expedient Means” chapter: eight important points 20 3 “Simile and Parable” chapter: nine important points 43 4 “Belief and Understanding” chapter: six important points 54 5 “The Parable of the Medicinal Herbs” chapter: five important points 62 6 “Bestowal of Prophecy” chapter: four important points 67 7 “The Parable of the Phantom City” chapter: seven important points 72 8 “Prophecy of Enlightenment for Five Hundred Disciples” chapter: three important points 78 9 “Prophecies Conferred on Learners and Adepts” chapter: two important points 80 10 “The Teacher of the Law” chapter: sixteen important points 81 11 “The Emergence of the Treasure Tower” chapter: twenty important points 89 12 “Devadatta” chapter: eight important points 100 13 “Encouraging Devotion” chapter: thirteen important points 109 14 “Peaceful Practices” chapter: five important points 115 15 “Emerging from the Earth” chapter: one important point 117 PART TWO 16 “The Life Span of the Thus Come One” chapter: twenty-seven important points 123 17 “Distinctions in Benefits” chapter: three important points 144 18 “The Benefits of Responding with Joy” chapter: two important points 146 19 “Benefits of the Teacher of the Law” chapter: four important points 147 20 “The Bodhisattva Never Disparaging” chapter: thirty important points 150 21 “Supernatural Powers of the Thus Come One” chapter: eight important points 166 22 “Entrustment” chapter: three important points 171 23 “Former Affairs of the Bodhisattva Medicine King” chapter: six important points 172 24 “The Bodhisattva Wonderful Sound” chapter: three important points 176 25 “The Universal Gateway of the Bodhisattva Perceiver of the World’s Sounds” chapter: five important points 178 26 “Dhāranī” chapter: six important points 183 27 “Former Affairs of King Wonderful Adornment” chapter: three important points 187 28 “Encouragements of the Bodhisattva Universal Worthy” chapter: six important points 189 The Immeasurable Meanings Sutra: six important points 199 The Universal Worthy Sutra: five important points 203 Separate Transmission: The Essential Passage in Each of the Twenty-eight Chapters of the Lotus Sutra 207 All the Twenty-eight Chapters of the Lotus Sutra Are Nam-myoho-renge-kyo 221 Skip to Chapter Table (Press Enter).