The Life of the Buddha

by Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky

Book Overview

This book analyses and reconstructs the oldest extant pictorial and scriptural narratives of the life of the Buddha. The biography, presented in chronological order, is based on a comparative analysis of the most ancient originals, these scriptures are Chinese translations that have not been rendered into Western languages; they are supplemented by scriptures in the Pali Canon and later Sanskrit texts. Questions of alternate traditions, descrepancies...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819187909
• ISBN13: 9780819187901
• Release Date: November 1992
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 281 Pages