concept

Dharma

Beliefs & concepts

Cosmic order, duty, and teaching in Indic speech. Not karma as deed-fruit alone, and not law as secular code alone.

Buddhist traditions

  • Dharma appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra is a Dharma teaching — the Buddha’s law/teaching proclaimed and explained by skillful means. Buddhist Dharma in that sūtra, not karma as deed-fruit alone and not Vedic ṛta under a forced flatten.

    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.