Dainihonkoku Hokekyō Kenki (大日本国法華経験記, "Miraculous Tales of the Lotus Sutra from Japan"), also called Honchô Hokke Genki (本朝法華験記) but commonly referred to as Hokke Genki (法華験記),[1] is an 11th century Japanese collection of Buddhist tales and folklore (setsuwa).
The tales he collected, however, are Japanese only, which Chingen noted in the preface are meant for ordinary people rather than priests and scholars.
[3][4] Chingen organised his tales roughly chronologically from the time of Prince Shōtoku in chapters that are based on the seven groups of the Buddhist order; these are bodhisattvas, monks, male novices, nuns, laymen and laywomen, and animals and other non-human entities.
[5][4] The collection contains setsuwa tales or biographical stories of advocates and devotees (jikyōsha, 持経者) of the Lotus Sutra, many of them from the Heian period.
[2] The collection has been translated into English by Yoshiko K. Dykstra and published as Miraculous Tales of the Lotus Sutra from Ancient Japan: The Dainihonkoku Hokekyokenki of Priest Chingen.