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Aśvaghoṣa and His Canonical Sources (III): The Night of Awakening (Buddhacarita 14.1–87)
The present paper is the third in a series dedicated to uncovering the canonical sources of Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacarita and, to the extent possible, the...
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A Bibliography of Aśvaghoṣa
Though quite extensive in its coverage, the present bibliography does not claim to be exhaustive. Among the many works traditionally (but...
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The Four Nobles’ Truths and Their 16 Aspects: On the Dogmatic and Soteriological Presuppositions of the Buddhist Epistemologists’ Views on Niścaya
Most Buddhists would admit that every Buddhist practice and theoretical construct can be traced to or at least subsumed under one or more among the...
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Aśvaghoṣa and His Canonical Sources I: Preaching Selflessness to King Bimbisāra and the Magadhans (Buddhacarita 16.73–93)
Aśvaghoṣa’s Buddhacaritacontains two sharply argumented critiques of the non-Buddhists’ self: one against Arāḍa Kālāma’s (proto-)Sāṅkhya version of...