For Higan week I’m using quotes from Chinese Master Hsuan Hua’s commentary on the Lotus Sutra. Each pāramitā and its corresponding four factors is illustrated by a slide created by Google’s NotebookLM.
While discussing the Devadatta chapter of the Lotus Sutra, Hsuan Hua outlined four corresponding factors that are related to each of the six pāramitās. I copied this text, which runs from page 185 in volume 8 to page 189, and used it as the source material in Google’s NotebookLM. One of the features of NotebookLM is its ability to create slides based on the source material. I gave NotebookLM this prompt:
Create a deck suitable for religious instruction on the Six Paramitas and the Four Factors for each.
This slideshow is the result:
NotebookLM can also create Infographics. I asked NotebookLM to “Use Japanese iconography from medieval Japan to illustrate this infographic.” Here’s the result:
