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Sep 5, 2024 · Buddhist monk (bhadanta) and great poet (mahākavi) Aśvaghoṣa of Sāketa can be identified as Buddhist poetry (kāvya). The question of “What makes a poem Buddhist?” finds analogues in a long line of disputes recorded in Alaṅkāraśāstra treatises seeking to define poetry as a distinct form of literature.
Sep 13, 2024 · From the prākṛts that we see in their literary works, we can say with some certainty that the language used by Aśvaghoṣa is more ancient compared to Bhāsa’s, which is in turn older than Kālidāsa’s. Aśvaghoṣa lived in the early part of the second century CE and Bhāsa belongs to the third century CE.
2 days ago · Hartmann, Jens-Uwe, Kazunobu Matsuda, and Péter-Dániel Szánto. 2022. ‘The Benefit of Cooperation: Recovering the Śokavinodana Ascribed to Aśvaghoṣa’. In Dharmayātrā: Papers on Ancient South Asian Philosophies, Asian Culture and Their Transmission, edited by Mahinda Deegalle, 173–80. Paris: Nuvis. Hùifēng, Shì. 2016.
Sep 14, 2024 · In this talk I will consider in what sense the three surviving works of the 2nd cent. Buddhist monk (bhadanta) and great poet (mahākavi) Aśvagho ...
4 days ago · Some of the earliest Sanskrit dramas are those of Aśvaghoṣa (only a fragment of his Śāriputraprakaraṇa survives) and the many plays of Bhāsa (c.1st century BCE), most of which are based on the two great epics (Mahabharata and Ramayana).
Sep 12, 2024 · Returning to the Bodhi tree, its presence in Buddhist literature is tightly entangled with the Buddha’s life. As Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita narrates, Prince Siddhartha “repaired to the foot of a bo-tree, […] that great pure tree, and sat down with the vow to become awakened.” Affectively entangled, the environment reacts immediately ...
4 days ago · Ancient Buddhist monasteries near Dhamekh Stupa Monument Site in Sarnath. Devotees performing puja at one of the Buddhist Caves in Ellora. Buddhism is an ancient Indian religion, which arose in and around the ancient Kingdom of Magadha (now in Bihar, India).
