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Chatra

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A named royal or Buddha-honor parasol of Indian and later Buddhist image. Not a crown, not a Kāhili, and not every later umbrella.

Buddhist traditions

  • Chatra appears in Buddhist traditions.

    The Lotus Sutra’s Buddha-world speech seats the chatra parasol among royal and sacred marks. A named chatra in that sutra, not umbrella as a rain tool and not a stupa dump alone.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.