Schools of Lotus foundation often as do other sects and religions or even organizations have a tendency to become myopic and promote study only of the on source or in this case, the Lotus Sutra. But it is in the very nature of the training in the 5 periods of the Buddhist teachings that each stage/period stands on the shoulders of the previous. So to fully grasp the legendary placement of the Lotus Sutra in the Buddhist houvre is to necessitate the full understanding of all the Mahayana certainly, but all of Buddhist scholarship, both inside the Buddhist orders and outside the Buddhist sects. Scholarship in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries have added immeasurable scholarship and continuity to these profound teachings. I am drawing a strong relationship here in this series between the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras, specifically the Prajna Paramita Sutra in 32 Chapters for its granular description of how, why, and goal of Bodhisattva practice that the Lotus only references as it stands totally upon this scholarship.
