Cover of The Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king

The Fo-sho-hing-tsan-king

by Asvaghosa, Patrick Olivelle

1883 380 pages eng

"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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