Other passages in the Lotus Sūtra describe the hardships of the bodhisattva path. But [in the last half of Chapter 2] we learn that gaining entry to the path is remarkably easy. The Buddha begins by making the standard claim that those who perform the six perfections (pāramitās) of giving, ethics, patience, effort, concentration, and wisdom — the so-called bodhisattva deeds — will attain the path of the buddhas. This is familiar doctrine in both the mainstream and Mahāyāna traditions. But then, in one of the most moving passages in the sūtra, he promises the same attainment for those who perform the far easier act of merely paying homage to stūpas. Even little children “who have drawn a buddha image with a blade of grass or a twig, brush or fingernail, such people, having gradually accumulated merit and perfected great compassion, have certainly attained the path of the buddhas.” The same is true for those who pay homage by making music or even make a low-pitched sound with their voice. “Those who, even with distracted minds have offered a single flower to a painted image will in due time see innumerable buddhas. Or those who have done obeisance to images, or merely pressed their palms together, or raised a single hand, or nodded their heads, will in due time see immeasurable buddhas.” For a tradition that by this time had already developed an architectonics of enlightenment notable for both its precision and its complexity, such declarations are revolutionary.