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“the five practices of the preacher of the dharma (preserving, reading, reciting, explaining, and copying the sūtra)”
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“Lotus Sūtra's own instructions in Chapter Ten, “Wherever this sūtra is taught, read, recited, copied, or wherever it is found, one should build a seven-jeweled stūpa of great height and width and richly ornamented” (169).”
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“in Japan we find sumptuous copies of the Lotus Sūtra in which each character is drawn inside in a stūpa, as though enshrined there as a buddha would be.”
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“We find copies of the sūtra in which each of the ten scrolls that compose it has a frontispiece on indigo paper depicting the events of the chapter in that scroll, all centered around a gold nine-storied pagoda where the two buddhas sit side by side. When one looks closely, the lines of the pagoda are composed of the characters of the sūtra. In this way, the artist both copied the sūtra and built a stūpa, two deeds extolled in the sūtra itself.”
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