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Author | : Aryashura |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2017-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1479885835 |
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The Garland of 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 Aryashura, 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.
Author | : Aryasura |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2021-05-19 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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"The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories" is a book by Arya Sura that focuses on the teachings of Buddha to his followers and students through excellent enlightenment. The author also tells stories for Buddhists and people interested in walking in the light of his understanding. This book talks about his former births and existence.
Author | : Dalai Lama XIV Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Art, Tibetan |
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Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781983457104 |
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The Jatakamala or Garland of Birth Stories by Aryasura retells in Classical Sanskrit 34 of the Buddha's previous lives, illustrating the virtues he pursued during the time he was striving in previous births before attaining Awakening. The text was beautifully translated by the Dutch scholar J S Speyer and published in 1895 as the first book in the Sacred Books of the Buddhists series. The "Garland of Birth-stories" belongs to the Canon of the Northern Buddhists. An English translation of this famous collection of Jataka stories, including one not found in the Pali collection (with an embedded reading of the text). The book first published in1895.
Author | : Jat̀akas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : P. Bigandet |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2020-07-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3752380616 |
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Reproduction of the original: The Life Or Legend of Gaudama by P. Bigandet
Author | : Aryashura |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 548 |
Release | : 2009-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0814795811 |
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In this second volume of the Garland of Past Lives, Aryashura applies his elegant literary skill toward composing fourteen further stories that depict the Buddha's quest for enlightenment in his former lives. Here the perfection of forbearance becomes the dominant theme, as the future Buddha suffers mutilations from the wicked and sacrifices himself for those he seeks to save. Friendship, too, takes on central significance, with greed leading to treachery and enemies transformed into friends through the transformative effect of the future Buddha's miraculous virtue. The setting for many such moral feats is the forest. Portrayed as home for the future Buddha in his lives as an animal or ascetic, the peaceful harmony of this idyllic realm is often violently interrupted by intrusions from human society. Only the future Buddha can resolve the ensuing conflict, influencing even kings, in the stories but also throughout Asian history, to express wonder and devotion at the startling demonstrations of virtue they encounter.
Author | : Higgins-Marie Musaeus |
Publisher | : Educa Books |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9788175363830 |
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Stories of previous emanations (jatakas) of Gautama Buddha.
Author | : Edward Byles Cowell |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
Total Pages | : 698 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9788120807259 |
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In India recollection of previous lives is a common feature in the histories of the saints and heroes of sacred tradition. The doctrine of transmigration, since the later Vedic period, has played such an important part in the history of the national character and religious ideas that even buddhist literature has included the ages of the past as an authentic background to the founder's historical life as Gautama. Jataka stories or birth legends were widely known in the third century B.C. The Pali work, entitled The Jataka contains 537 Birth-stories of the Buddha's former births. Each story, narrated by the Buddha, opens with a preface relating the particular circumstances in the Buddha's life, revealing some events in the long series of his previous existences as a bodhisattva. At the end the buddha identifies the different actors in the story in their present births. These stories magnify the glory of the buddha and illustrate buddhist doctrines and precepts by appropriate example. The foremost interest of these legends lies in their relation to folklore giving a vivid picture of the social life and customs of ancient India. The famous translations of the Jataka Stories from Pali edited by Prof. E.B. Cowell are now once again being made available to the general public in three volumes.
Author | : Ârya Sûra |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1977 |
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