Compassionate White Lotus Flower Sutra [悲華経] ( Karunā-pundarīka-sūtra; Chin Pei-hua-ching; Hike-kyō): A sutra translated into Chinese by Dharmaraksha (385–433). The sutra says that Shakyamuni, out of his immeasurable compassion, was born not in a pure land but in the troubled sahā world to save the people. Therefore he is compared to the most beautiful of all flowers, the white lotus flower, described in the sutra as a symbol of great compassion, and the other Buddhas in their respective pure lands are compared to lesser flowers. Both the Sanskrit text and its Tibetan translation are also extant.