Thanks very much. Attempting to learn about Buddhism lately is resulting in a lot of new vocabulary items (including many "redundant" terms) and concepts.
I don't know what the OP is reading, but in all the materials I have been reading they are careful to include the 原語. I usually skip right over it because there is no way I'm going to deal with all those Sanskrit terms. Avoiding the Sanskrit terms is part of the reason I'm reading the things in Japanese instead of English. With a ton of various 仏 and 如来 and 菩薩 populating the 法華経 I know I'd never be able to keep them straight without the help of seeing their names in kanji. It is so much to deal with that for the first time in my life I'm actually using a highlight pen in a book. I actually drained one with about 50 pages left to go in the book.
I know a man about 85 years old who says he has been studying the 法華経 for fifty years. If he is working from an unabridged classical Japanese version, I can see how it would take fifty years.
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