Life of Buddha- Asvaghosha Bodhisattva (Translated from Sanskrit into Chinese By Dharmaraksha, A.D. 420: From Chinese into English By Samuel Beral)

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About the Book The book is an excellent piece of outstanding work done author consisting biography Gautama Buddha so as it includes those earth lives which lived preceding Buddha’s also the life lived as a disciple. look attempt is made to represent Buddha palace and become a disciple. inversion to cover almost the whole life of Buddha starting from his birth to death.

Introduction BUDDHA undoubtedly the most potent name a religious teacher, in the whole of Asia. propaganda of the Buddhist faiths from the valley to the valley the Ganges, and from Ceylon the Himalayas; thence traversed China, conquests seem have been permanent. The of Buddha far Confucius, so far resembles Christianity, that combines mysticism with practical rule personal conduct a transcendentalism. It has, moreover, the great advantage possessing highly fascinating and romantic gospel, or biography, of founder. Gautama, as hero Arnold's "Light Asla is very well-known to English readers, and, although Sir Edwin Arnold not by any means of first order, has done great deal familiarize the Anglo-Saxon mind with Oriental life and thought. far more faithful life of Buddha that some the first tour the twelfth Buddhist patriarch Asvaghosha. learned ecclesiastic about through different districts of India. appears have travelled patiently These and traditions which related the of his master. collecting the stories wove into Sanscrit which three hundred years later was translated into Chinese. from which version our present translation made. There be doubt that author of Sanskrit poem was a famous preacher musician.

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