One of my New Year’s goals for 2024 is to divide the text of the 28 chapters of the Lotus Sutra into 365 roughly equal portions and provide a commentary taken from the Daily Dharma or from the many quotes from books I’ve posted here. If successful, I’ll publish these daily in 2025.

To that end, I’ve embedded more than 2100 links in the text of the Lotus Sutra. This has become The Lotus Sutra with Annotations. (The text of the Lotus Sutra without annotations is still available.)

The The Lotus Sutra with Annotations replaces my separate commentary divided among the 32 Days of the Lotus Sutra practice. If nothing else, this will immediately speed my daily 32 Days of the Lotus Sutra posts.

Some trivia about this links:

When you compare each of the eight fascicles, Fascicle Five – Chapter 12, Devadatta; Chapter 13, Encouragement for Keeping this Sutra; Chapter 14, Peaceful Practices; and Chapter 15, The Appearance of Bodhisattvas from Underground – has the most links, 332; followed by Fascicle Four – Chapter 8, The Assurance of Future Buddhahood of the Five Hundred Disciples; Chapter 9, The Assurance of Future Buddhahood of the Śrāvakas Who Have Something More to Learn and the Śrāvakas Who Have Nothing More to Learn; Chapter 10, The Teacher of the Dharma; Chapter 11, Beholding the Stūpa of Treasures – with 319 links.

Among individual chapters, Chapter 2, Expedients has the most links, with 178, followed by Chapter 16, The Duration of the Life of the Tathāgata, with 125 links. The fewest links are found in Chapter 26, Dhāraṇīs, with 29 links, followed by Chapter 24, Wonderful-Voice Bodhisattva, with 38 links.

The most commented upon topic is “They had lived in the sky below this Sahā-World,”  which has 32 links. The next most linked section is the decision of the rich man to give his sons who escaped the burning house the large carts, with 29 links.