- 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...
- the
first fruits of his
field in
their nine
stages of production. The
Mahavastu gives another account explaining the
origin of Kaundinya's vow to attain...
-
Tibetan translation,
which is po****r in
traditional Tibetan Buddhism "
Mahāvastu" – a Lokottaravāda text with
parallels to
verses in the Pāli Dhammapada's...
-
number in
Sanskrit collections, of
which the
chief are the Mahāsāṃghika's
Mahāvastu ("Great Book") and the Sarvāstivāda's Avadānaśataka (Century of Legends)...
- 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)...
- the Buddha's life and
teachings which,
unlike other treatments such as
Mahavastu (“Great Story”) and
Lalitavistara (“Full
Description of the Play [of the...
- Sanskrit,
sometimes with a Pali syntax,
states Renou. The Mahāsāṃghika and
Mahavastu, in
their late
Hinayana forms, used
hybrid Sanskrit for
their literature...
