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Propagating the Lotus Sutra (1985-2005)

Thirteen volumes of illuminated manuscripts
inspired by the Lotus Sutra - Myoho Renge Kyo

In the pub, june 2004

Volume I ~ The Aim of Life

volume II - How to Enjoy Death (1988)

The Dunbar Collection,
(Glasgow, Scotland)
(permission to exhibit being sought.)

volume III - Book III (1989)

on loan - Maria del Carmen Escalante, Spain

volume IV - Desperately Seeking Meaning (Susan Won't Do) (1989)

volume V - File'o'Lies (1990)

volume VI - Religion. (includes "Why I don't Wanna House." )

volune VII - Ken and the Art of Forgery.

scheduled for inclusion 2006

volume VIII - The Death and Life of Julian.

volume IX -The Eight-fold Bogus Sutra.

Volume X - BooKen-Ten (I am not a cat)

note. currently being prepared, an extract (in quotes.)

In Swift and Rabelais, the jabs lie beneath the surface.
With George Bernard Shaw, the greatest barbed tongue of all time,
the rapier is unsheathed.

Among his many plays, one of the most iconoclastic is
Don Juan in Hell (contained within the longer play Man and Superman).

At the play's climax, Shaw declaims in the voice of Don Juan
how all the world's turned topsy turvy,
and those who appear to be the best are in fact the worst:

"In this Palace of Lies a truth or two won't hurt you.
Your friends are the dullest dogs I know.
They are not beautiful: they are only decorated.
They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched.
They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed.
They are not educated: they are only college passmen.
They are not religious: they are only pewrenters.
They are not moral: they are only conventional.
They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly.
They are not even vicious: they are only "frail."
They are not artistic: they are only lavicious.
They are not prosperous: they are only rich.
They are not loyal: they are only servile,
not dutiful: only sheepish,
not courageous: only quarrelsome,
not determined, only obstinate,
not masterful, only determined,
not self-controlling: obtuse,
not self-respecting: only vain,
not kind: only sentimental,
not social: only gregarious,
not considerate: only polite,
nor intelligent: only opinionated,
not progressive: only factious,
not imaginative: only superstitious,
not just: only vindictive,
not generous: only proprietary,
not disciplined: only cowed,
not truthful at all: liars every one of them,
to the very backbone of their souls."

Volume XI - Too True To Be Good

volume XII - E.I.T.B.M.B.W.

Volume XIII ~ Propagating The Lotus Sutra

volume index

1. The Aim of Life.

2. How to Enjoy Death.

3. Book III

4. Desperately Seeking Meaning ( Susan Won't Do.)

5. File o'Lies.

6. Religion. (includes "Why I don't Wanna House." )

7. KEN and the Art of Forgery.

8. The Death and Life of Julian.

9. The Eight-fold Bogus Sutra.

10. BooKen-Ten.

11. Too True to be Good.

12. E.I.T.B.M.B.W.

13. Propagating the Lotus Sutra

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