Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. A Note on Sources xi
5. Authors’ Introduction 1
6. Chapter one: Introduction 35
7. Chapter two: Skillful Means 53
8. Chapter three: A Parable 74
9. Chapter four: Willing Acceptance 89
10. Chapter five: Herbs 97
11. Chapter six: Prediction 105
12. Chapter seven: The Apparitional City 110
13. Chapters eight and nine: The Five Hundred Disciples Receive Their Predictions and The Predictions for Those Who Still Have More to Learn and for Those Who Do Not 122
14. Chapter ten: Expounder of the Dharma 129
15. Chapter eleven: The Appearance of the Jeweled Stūpa 136
16. Chapter twelve: Devadatta 149
17. Chapter thirteen: Perseverance 160
18. Chapter fourteen: Ease in Practice 166
19. Chapter fifteen: Bodhisattvas Emerging from the Earth 170
20. Chapter sixteen: The Lifespan of the Tathāgata 179
21. Chapters seventeen and eighteen: Description of Merits and The Merits of Joyful Acceptance 192
22. Chapter nineteen: The Benefits Obtained by an Expounder of the Dharma 201
23. Chapter twenty: Bodhisattva Sadāparibhūta 206
24. Chapters twenty-one and twenty-two: The Transcendent Powers of the Tathāgata and Entrustment 213
25. Chapter twenty-three: Ancient Accounts of Bodhisattva Bhaiṣajyarāja 223
26. Chapters twenty-four and twenty-five: Bodhisattva Gadgadasvara and The Gateway to Every Direction 237
27. Chapter twenty-six: Dhāraṇī 243
28. Chapter twenty-seven: Ancient Accounts of King Śubhavyūha 249
29. Chapter twenty-eight: Encouragement of Bodhisattva Samantabhadra 258
30. Conclusion 263
31. Notes 267
32. Index 285