二处三会

The two places from which the Buddha is supposed to have preached the Lotus Sūtra, i.e. the Vulture Peak, the sky, and again the Vulture Peak; the three assemblies are

(1) those he addressed from the Peak, chapters 1 to the middle of the eleventh chapter;

(2) those addressed from the sky, to the end of the twenty-second chapter; and

(3) again those on the Vulture Peak, from the twenty-third chapter to the end.