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Book TitleMahavastu, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Number of Pages472 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicBuddhism / General (See Also Philosophy / Buddhist)

Publication Year2015

IllustratorYes

GenreReligion

AuthorJ. J. Jones

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SynopsisExcerpt from The Mahavastu, Vol. 2 This characteristic Of the M ahdvastn gives it not the least of its many attractions to the student of Buddhism and its literature. For it thereby affords instructive material for the study of the growth Of the legend of the Buddha. Careful analysis of the various repetitive versions, coupled with a critical comparison with the versions in other texts will often prove useful for determining the original form of the tradition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works., Excerpt from The Mahavastu, Vol. 2 The second volume of the Mah vastu corresponds to the second of the three sections into which, on the analogy of the Ni na-kath, the whole of the work may be divided. In effect, we have in this volume what corresponds to the Avid re-nid na, or the more recent history of Gotama the Buddha, as compared on the one hand with his history in the far-distant past when he was proclaimed as future Buddha by Dipamkara, and on the other hand with the still more recent establishment of the Buddhist Order as recounted in the latter part of the third volume. The first volume will already have shown us, however, that we must not expect in this section to find a connected and straight-running account of Gotama's career. We have seen in that volume abundant examples of the proclivity of the compilers of the Mah vastu to include in this canonical work of their sect every possible piece of tradition which bore on their subject. In so far as this proclivity is evident, we may say that the whole work has a certain pattern, in spite of the chaotic accumulation of all sorts of Buddhistic lore, Jatakas, Avadanas, and S tras. Every possible incident, for example, in Gotama's career is made the occasion for relating an edifying Jataka or Avadana, which is often repeated in varying versions. Whatever length of time may have separated the latest from the earliest compilers, this aim of comprehensiveness was consistently pursued, so much so that in the process the Mah vastu lost almost all the features of a Vinaya, which it claimed to be. This characteristic of the Mah vastu gives it not the least of its many attractions to the student of Buddhism and its literature. For it thereby affords instructive material for the study of the growth of the legend of the Buddha. Careful analysis of the various repetitive versions, coupled with a critical comparison with the versions in other texts will often prove useful for determining the original form of the tradition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."