(Online library) Life of the Buddha (Clay Sanskrit Library)
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| #76082 in Books | Ashva ghosha Patrick Olivelle | 2008-05-01 | 2008-05-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 6.50 x1.00 x4.60l,.95 | File Name: 0814762166 | 558 pages | Life of the Buddha Clay Sanskrit Library
||31 of 32 people found the following review helpful.| The greatest story ever told (Eastern edition)|By David Fowler|The Clay Sanskrit Library series is, without doubt, a gift from a very benevolent and gracious God (exactly which one of the 330 million is unclear however - but whichever one it is, "thank you"). One of the latest incarnations of this series, Professor Patrick Olivelle's translation of Ashvaghosha's epic poem "|||”The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance.”-Willis G
The Buddhist monk Ashva·ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayódhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called kavya and probably provided models for Kali·dasa's more famous works. The most poignant scenes on the path to his Awakening are when the young prince Siddhártha, the future Buddha, is confronted by the reality of sickness, old age, and death, while...
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