Shakyamuni Buddha preached for more than 40 years but when he started to preach on The Lotus Sutra, he claimed that for his past 40 years he had yet to reveal the truth! Lotus Sutra is the ultimate sutra (Buddha's main purpose) he wanted to reveal for the sake of everyone to attain buddhahood like him. Thus, Lotus Sutra is also known as the King of the Sutra.
Every Buddhist should SERIOUSLY put in some time to read this Chapter two of Lotus Sutra for some important points revealed by Shakyamuni, eg, Why he preached so many different doctrines and sutras in the past, why he preached about Nirvana in the past, why he had not taught the way to attain buddhahood in the past, why he only revealed the truth after 40 years, and his purpose to preach The Lotus Sutra...etc
To help you better understand the meaning of this chapter, I had combined the original chinese version of Lotus Sutra (translated by 姚秦鳩摩羅什) together with the English version (translated by Burton Watson).
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