The Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king
Mahayana Buddhism
Gautama buddha
Buddhists
Sacred books
Buddhism
Poetry (poetic works by one author)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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Biography
"The Buddhist monk Ashva-ghosha composed his elegant biographical and religious poem in the first or second century CE, probably in the city of Ayodhya. Importantly, this is the earliest extent text of the Sanskrit genre of "literature as a fine art" (kavya)." "Fourteen cantos take the reader from t…
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