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Wed 30 Nov, 2016 01:49 pm
During the last eight years of Shakyamuni’s life, however, he no longer spoke about Amida and Dainichi Buddhas. And the Four Noble Truths, the Six Paramitas and the doctrine of non-substantiality were referred to only as preliminary lessons. Instead, he focused primarily on teaching the Lotus Sutra. As Shakyamuni explained,
Knowing that all living beings have many kinds of desires deeply attached in their minds, I have, according to their capacity, expounded the laws by various reasonings, parabolic expressions, and tactful powers. Sariputra! Such teachings all are in order to secure perfect knowledge of the One Buddha-vehicle. (Threefold Lotus Sutra, Weatherhill, p. 61)
I would like to know why after As Shakyamuni explained, there are no open inverted commas and also no closed inverted commas at the end of his speech.
Thanks.
@tanguatlay,
What's standard practice is to indent a long direct quote by 6 spaces when writing in block paragraphs, like what you'd find
here, for example.
Block quotation
@tanguatlay,
tanguatlay wrote:I would like to know why after As Shakyamuni explained, there are no open inverted commas and also no closed inverted commas at the end of his speech.
Using inverted commas is only one possible way of setting off quoted material from the surrounding material. As has been pointed out, indentation is another method, or (as in your example) using a separate paragraph. A different font style (e.g. italic) or size is another way.
[EDIT] Infrablue's 'block quote' link leads to a useful page.
@contrex,
Thanks, InfraBlue and contrex.
Is not using the quotation marks an American way of punctuating speeches? Do the British use the same way?
@tanguatlay,
tanguatlay wrote:Is not using the quotation marks an American way of punctuating speeches? Do the British use the same way?
All methods are used in both American and British printing. There is no Atlantic divide on this.
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