Baralâm and Ycewâsěf, being the Ethiopic version of a Christianized recension of the Buddhist legend of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva / the Ethiopic text edited for the first time with an English translation and introduction, etc., by Sir E. A. Wal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934.

Standardized Title:

Barlaam and Joasaph English & Ethiopic.

Language:

English

Ethiopic

Subjects (All):

Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Lalitavistara.

Tripiṭaka.

Buddhism.

Buddhist legends.

Comparative literature--Themes, motives.

Comparative literature.

Physical Description:

2 volumes : 75 (that is 74) plates (including facsimiles) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, [Eng.] : University Press, 1923.

Contents:

I. Ethiopic text.

II. The introduction: I. The Book of Barlaam and Iȯasaph. II. The Indian sources of the Book of Barlaam and Iȯasaph. III. Note on a manuscript of the "Lalita vistara" in the library of the Royal Asiatic society,

Barnett. IV. Summary of the "Lalita vistara". V. The Jʹatakas, or birth stories of the Buddha. VI. The Pehlevi version of the Book of Barlaam and Iʹoasaph. The versions. English translation. The preaching of St. Thomas in India. The Ac +

Thomas in India. List of Bible passages quoted or referred to. +

Notes:

Plates X-LXXIII reproduce the series of sixty-four woodcuts in the Augsburg edition of Barlaam und Jehosaphat printed in 1477.

Contains:

Acts of Thomas.

OCLC:

2138775