Le Mahāvastu - Vol. 3 (Senart 1897)
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Le Mahāvastu: Texte Sanscrit publié pour la première fois et accompagné d'introductions et d'un commentaire. Vol. 3
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Citation
Senart, Émile, ed. Le Mahāvastu: Texte Sanscrit publié pour la première fois et accompagné d'introductions et d'un commentaire. Vol. 3. Société Asiatique. Collection d'ouvrages orientaux. Second Série. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1897.
Interconnections
1 Recension of
The Mahāvastu or “Great Chapter” is a lengthy work of the Lokottaravāda (Proponents of the Supramundane) subsect of the Mahāsāṃghika (Great Saṅgha) tradition, which some scholars have regarded as a precursor of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It is written in mixed Sanskrit, Pāli, and Prakrit and is regarded as the earliest Sanskrit biography of the Buddha. The work belongs to the Vinayapiṭaka and in fact describes itself as a historical preface to the Buddhist monastic codes (Skt. vinaya). In this regard, it does correspond loosely to the Mahāvagga section of the Khandhaka in the Pāli Vinayapiṭaka. Over half the text comprises avadānas and jatakas (some having no Pāli antecedent), which tell of past lives of the Buddha when he was a bodhisattva on the path to awakening. (Source: 84000)
1 Other editions
The original edition of this vol. was published by Imprimerie nationale (Paris) 1897.
1 Other volumes
Senart, Émile, ed. Le Mahāvastu: Texte Sanscrit publié pour la première fois et accompagné d'introductions et d'un commentaire. Vol. 1. Société Asiatique. Collection d'ouvrages orientaux. Second Série. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1882.
1 Scholarship on
The Mahāvastu or “Great Chapter” is a lengthy work of the Lokottaravāda (Proponents of the Supramundane) subsect of the Mahāsāṃghika (Great Saṅgha) tradition, which some scholars have regarded as a precursor of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It is written in mixed Sanskrit, Pāli, and Prakrit and is regarded as the earliest Sanskrit biography of the Buddha. The work belongs to the Vinayapiṭaka and in fact describes itself as a historical preface to the Buddhist monastic codes (Skt. vinaya). In this regard, it does correspond loosely to the Mahāvagga section of the Khandhaka in the Pāli Vinayapiṭaka. Over half the text comprises avadānas and jatakas (some having no Pāli antecedent), which tell of past lives of the Buddha when he was a bodhisattva on the path to awakening. (Source: 84000)
