English: Sutra art from the Heike-Nôkyô. The mikaeshi of chapter 12. The daughter (Longnü) of the Dragon King offers the Buddha her priceless jewel (pearl). With this anecdote, the Lotus Sutra proclaims that women can become Buddhas like men. After that she turns into a man and immediately attains the highest enlightenment of a Buddha.
The Heike-nôkyô is a masterpiece of the decorated sutra. It is dedicated by Taira no Kiyomori (1118-81) to Itsukushima Jinja shrine in 1164, is one of the masterpieces of decorated sutras ( sôshoku kyô ) made by aristocrats in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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English: Sutra art from the Heike-Nôkyô. The mikaeshi of chapter 12. The daughter (Longnü) of the Dragon King offers the Buddha her priceless jewel (pearl). With this anecdote, the Lotus Sutra proclaims that women can become Buddhas like men. After that she turns into a man and immediately attains the highest enlightenment of a Buddha.
The Heike-nôkyô is a masterpiece of the decorated sutra. It is dedicated by Taira no Kiyomori (1118-81) to Itsukushima Jinja shrine in 1164, is one of the masterpieces of decorated sutras ( sôshoku kyô ) made by aristocrats in the 11th and 12th centuries.
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The dragon king's daughter presents her priceless jewel to the Buddha; frontispiece of a 12th-century Lotus Sutra handscroll in the "Heike Nokyo".
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