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Aśvaghoṣa is an impact crater on Mercury, 90 kilometers in diameter. It is located at 10.4°, 21°W, south of the crater Abu Nuwas and southwest of the crater Molière . It is a nearly circular formation, and its rim remains intact, except where it is broken at its southern side, and at its northern side by an indentation from two conjoined craterlets.
Abstract. This chapter on Aśvaghoṣa's Buddhacarita returns to the question of biography, and takes up the centrality of dharma in this text. Aśvaghoṣa, a Brahmin convert to Buddhism and a versatile poet‐scholar, tells the Buddha's life story from earlier Buddhist sources while taking cognizance of precedents from the Sanskrit epics.
Buddhac. Buddhacarita by Aśvaghoṣa. Abbreviations for the whole library. Bibliography: Beal, Samuel (1883), Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king: A Life of Buddha, Clarendon Press, Oxford. Cowell, E.B. (1893), The Buddha-Karita of Asvaghosha, Clarendon Press, Oxford. __________ (1927), "The Buddha-Karita of Asvaghosha", in Muller, F. Max, The Sacred Books ...
Asvaghosa (80-150 AD), one of the oldest known Sanskrit poets and dramatists, was a multi-faceted talent who blended monk and missionary, philosopher and theologian, grammarian and linguist into a brilliant creative writer. Asvaghosha was a prominent poet who is credited with spreading Buddhism. He was born into a Brahman household.
Chapter 5: Aśvaghoṣa and his School. Authorities: Sylvain Lévi, Le Buddhacarita d’Aśvaghoṣa, Journale Asiatique 1892 p. 8, vol. XIX, p. 201 ff. When Levi at p. 202 characterises the Buddhacarita as “a substantial abridgment of the Lalitavistara” he is in the wrong. At least the Lalitavistra in its present redaction could not have ...
The article analyses Sarvārthasiddha's search for true recluse and tries to understand dialogues, dissensions, confluences and dichotomies between Buddhism and Brahmanism as portrayed by Aśvaghoṣa. Asceticism is a fascinating theme to explore and the story of the Buddhacarita of Aśvaghoṣa makes it more animated and alive.
A Disputation respecting Caste by a Buddhist, in the form of a Series of Propositions supposed to be put by a Saiva and refuted by the Disputant. Transactions of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland 3/2 (1831), 160-169. [Repr. in (1) B.H. Hodgson: Illustrations of the Literature and Religion of.
