[Buddha-l] Taoism and Lotus Sutra

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

/ I visited the exhibition on Taoism in the Grand Palais in Paris today. 
It was very nice. I overheard a tourleader say that only when the Lotus 
Sūtra was introduced in China the Taoists realised their iconography 
couldn't compete with the Buddhist one and started to make up for it. 
This would explain the strong resemblance of many Taoist pictures of 
Saints with Buddhist pictures of bodhisattvas.
Comments anyone?

erik
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