The Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha by Elgin H. Johnston
The Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha

Elgin H. Johnston

Clay Sanskrit Library

The Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha

Elgin H. Johnston

527 pages hardcover 1998

5 editions

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The Buddhist monk Ashva-ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ay dhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called kavya and probably provided models for Kali-dasa's more fam...

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