ID: 901001370 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001370	Record Type: Literature

	Lotus Sutra (Buddhist literature)

Note: One of the most important texts in Mahayana Buddhism, significant particularly in China and Japan and given special veneration by the Nichiren sect.

Names:

	Lotus Sutra (Buddhist literature) (preferred,English-P,D,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Philosophy, Religion> (P)
		............<Named sutras> (P)
		................Lotus Sutra (Buddhist literature) (I)

Other Relationships:

	culture/religion is .... Mahayana Buddhism
	.....(Buddhism, religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	role/characteristic is .... sutra
	.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Lotus Sutra (Buddhist literature)
	................Bibliothèque nationale de France [online] (2011-)
	................Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Agnew, Reed, Ball, Cave Temples of Dunhuang (2016)