concept

Couplet

Words

Two lines that bind as a unit, often rhymed. Not stanza as a larger group, and not rhyme as the sound craft alone.

Buddhist traditions

  • Couplet appears in Buddhist traditions.

    The Lotus Sutra pairs verse couplets among gāthā speech. A named couplet verse-pair in that sutra, not gatha as the verse class already filed and not a Chinese regulated-verse dump.

    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.