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|BnwShortPersonBio=Aśvaghoṣa was a Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet and orator from India. He was born in Saketa in northern India. He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is considered the greatest Indian poet prior to Kālidāsa. He was the most famous in a group of Buddhist court writers, whose epics rivalled the contemporary Ramayana. Whereas much of Buddhist literature prior to the time of Aśvaghoṣa had been composed in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Aśvaghoṣa wrote in Classical Sanskrit.
|BnwShortPersonBio=Aśvaghoṣa was a Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet and orator from India. He was born in Saketa in northern India. He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is considered the greatest Indian poet prior to Kālidāsa. He was the most famous in a group of Buddhist court writers, whose epics rivalled the contemporary Ramayana. Whereas much of Buddhist literature prior to the time of Aśvaghoṣa had been composed in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Aśvaghoṣa wrote in Classical Sanskrit. He is traditionally attributed with authorship of the ''Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna'', though modern scholars tend to consider this a Chinese composition.
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PersonType Category:Classical Indian Authors
MainNameTib རྟ་དབྱངས་
MainNameWylie rta dbyangs
MainNameDev अश्वघोष
MainNameSkt Aśvaghoṣa
YearBirth 80
YearDeath 150
BornIn Ayodhyā, India
IsInGyatsa No
BnwShortPersonBio Aśvaghoṣa was a Buddhist philosopher, dramatist, poet and orator from India. He was born in Saketa in northern India. He is believed to have been the first Sanskrit dramatist, and is considered the greatest Indian poet prior to Kālidāsa. He was the most famous in a group of Buddhist court writers, whose epics rivalled the contemporary Ramayana. Whereas much of Buddhist literature prior to the time of Aśvaghoṣa had been composed in Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, Aśvaghoṣa wrote in Classical Sanskrit. He is traditionally attributed with authorship of the Awakening of Faith in the Mahāyāna, though modern scholars tend to consider this a Chinese composition.
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