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Life of the Buddha - (Clay Sanskrit Library) by Ashvaghosa (Hardcover)

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  • The Buddhist monk Ashva-ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayódhya.
  • Author(s): Ashvaghosa
  • 558 Pages
  • Biography + Autobiography, General
  • Series Name: Clay Sanskrit Library

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The Buddhist monk Ashva-ghosha composed Life of the Buddha in the first or second century CE probably in Ayódhya. This is the earliest surviving text of the Sanskrit literary genre called kavya and probably provided models for Kali-dasa's more famous works. The most poignant scenes on the path to his Awakening are when the young prince Siddhártha, the future Buddha, is confronted by the reality of sickness, old age, and death, while seduced by the charms of the women employed to keep him at home. A poet of the highest order, Ashva-ghosha's aim is not entertainment but instruction, presenting the Buddha's teaching as the culmination of the Brahmanical tradition. His wonderful descriptions of the bodies of courtesans are ultimately meant to show the transience of beauty.
Co-published by New York University Press and the JJC Foundation
For more on this title and other titles in the Clay Sanskrit series, please visit http: //www.claysanskritlibrary.org



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"No effort has been spared to make these little volumes as attractive as possible to readers: the paper is of high quality, the typesetting immaculate. The founders of the series are John and Jennifer Clay, and Sanskritists can only thank them for an initiative intended to make the classics of an ancient Indian language accessible to a modern international audience."-- "The Times Higher Education Supplement"

"Published in the geek-chic format."-- "BookForum"

"The Clay Sanskrit Library represents one of the most admirable publishing projects now afoot. . . . Anyone who loves the look and feel and heft of books will delight in these elegant little volumes."-- "New Criterion"

"The books line up on my shelf like bright Bodhisattvas ready to take tough questions or keep quiet company. They stake out a vast territory, with works from two millennia in multiple genres: aphorism, lyric, epic, theater, and romance."--Willis G. Regier "The Chronicle Review"

"Very few collections of Sanskrit deep enough for research are housed anywhere in North America. Now, twenty-five hundred years after the death of Shakyamuni Buddha, the ambitious Clay Sanskrit Library may remedy this state of affairs."-- "Tricycle"
Dimensions (Overall): 6.5 Inches (H) x 4.5 Inches (W) x 1.3 Inches (D)
Weight: .9 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 558
Genre: Biography + Autobiography
Sub-Genre: General
Series Title: Clay Sanskrit Library
Publisher: Clay Sanskrit
Format: Hardcover
Author: Ashvaghosa
Language: English
Street Date: May 1, 2008
TCIN: 85179989
UPC: 9780814762165
Item Number (DPCI): 247-62-9323
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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