[Buddha-l] Taoism and Lotus Sutra

[Richard P. Hayes]

On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 15:49 -0700, Barnaby Thieme wrote:
> > I overheard a tourleader say that only when the Lotus 
> > Sūtra was introduced in China the Taoists realised their iconography 
> > couldn't compete with the Buddhist one and started to make up for it. 
> 
> I'd be curious to know what evidence for this would look like. 

My guess is that one must be a tour guide in a museum in Paris to follow
the logic.

-- 
Richard P. Hayes
Department of Philosophy