placeCityPlacesA large dense settlement form. Not a modern nation dump, and not town as the smaller market seat alone.Buddhist traditionsCity appears in Buddhist traditions.Watson’s Lotus Sūtra seats the phantom city among its named parables — a conjured city that rests travelers on the road to the treasure. City speech in that teaching, not a modern nation dump and not a generic town alone.from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much olderappears in · sourced · documentedsourcesThe Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.