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- The Mahāvastu (Sanskrit for "Great Event" or "Great Story") is a canonical text of the Mahāsāṃghika Lokottaravāda school of Early Buddhism which was originally...
- Ltd. Jones, J.J. (1952), The Mahāvastu, Sacred Books of the Buddhists, vol. 2, London: Luzac & Co. ——— (1956), The Mahāvastu, Sacred Books of the Buddhists...
- Lokottaravādin views are known from the Mahāvastu, which is a rare surviving Mahāsāṃghika text in Sanskrit. The Mahāvastu is a biography of the Buddha which...
- tradition, and early biographies such as the Buddhacarita, the Lokottaravādin Mahāvastu, the Sarvāstivādin Lalitavistara Sūtra, give different accounts about...
- Sanskrit, sometimes with a Pali syntax, states Renou. The Mahāsāṃghika and Mahavastu, in their late Hinayana forms, used hybrid Sanskrit for their literature...
- and Nidanakatha (Prologue to the Jatakas), as well as the Mahasamghika Mahāvastu, contain stories of how in a previous life, Sakyamuni (then known as Sumedha)...
- returned to his home city of Kapilavastu at the request of Śuddhodana. The Mahāvastu text from the Lokottaravāda tradition states that the royals tried to...
- bodhisattva path is an ancient one and is contained in sources like the Mahavastu, which states: "the supreme ones [Buddhas], who are skilled in jātakas...
- Tibetan translation, which is po****r in traditional Tibetan Buddhism "Mahāvastu" – a Lokottaravāda text with parallels to verses in the Pāli Dhammapada's...
- versions found in the Ekottarika āgama A Mahāsāṃghika version in the Mahāvastu A version contained within the Catusparisat-sūtra The Theravāda sutra...