Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives (volume one of two) Cantos 1-20

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The “Garland of the Buddha’s Past Lives” is a collection of thirty four stories depicting the miraculous deeds performed by the Buddha in his previous rebirths. Composed in the fourth century C.E. by the Buddhist monk Arya·shura, the text’s accomplished artistry led Indian aesthetic theorists to praise its elegant mixture of verse and prose.

The twenty stories in this first volume deal primarily with the virtues of giving and morality. Ascetics sacrifice their lives for hungry tigers, kings open their veins for demons to drink their blood, helmsmen steer their crew through perilous seas, and quail chicks quench forest fires by proclaiming words of truth.

The experience is intended to arouse astonishment in the audience, inspiring devotion through the future Buddha’s transcendence of conventional norms in his quest to acquire enlightenment and save the world from suffering. The importance of such stories of past lives in traditional Buddhist culture, throughout Asia and up to today, cannot be overestimated.

Collection de 34 contes.
Texte en sanscrit romanisé et traduction anglaise en regard.
Trad. de "Jātakamālā"
Texte canonique bouddhique.

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0004887

BQ 1462 .E5M47 2009

Research Library (อาคาร 1 ชั้น 4)

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Clay Sanskrit library, 42.

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BQ 1462 .E5M47 2009

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New York University Press : JJ : New York University Press : JJC Foundation, 2009-., 2009

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1 v. (XXXIX-504 p.) : ill., jaquette ill. en coul.

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English

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9780814795811

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Buddhism

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Buddhism
Āryaśūra--Translations into English.
Buddhist stories, Sanskrit--Translations into Engl
Buddhist stories, Sanskrit -- Translations into English.
Buddhist stories, Sanskrit.
Āryaśūra -- Jātakamālā.

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