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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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Revision as of 16:51, 2 January 2020
རྟ་དབྱངས་
Wylie | rta dbyangs |
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Devanagari | अश्वघोष |
Romanized Sanskrit | Aśvaghoṣa |
Dates
Birth: | 80 |
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Death: | 150 |
Place of birth: | Ayodhyā, India |
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- 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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What is Buddha-nature? | |
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Svātantrika (རང་རྒྱུད་) vs Prāsaṅgika (ཐལ་འགྱུར་པ་) | |
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