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Baralâm and Yĕwâsĕf (Barlaam and Josaphat) : being the Ethiopic version of a Christianized recension of the Buddhist legend of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva / Ethiopic text, edited from two manuscripts in the British Museum and translated into English [by] Sir Ernest A. Wallis Budge, with an extensive critical and historical introduction on the transmission of this romance in various versions from Asia to Africa and Europe with notes, a list of Bible passages, and an index.
- Format:
- Book
- Standardized Title:
- Barlaam and Joasaph. English & Ethiopic.
- Language:
- English
- Ethiopic
- Subjects (All):
- Gautama Buddha.
- Buddhism.
- Bodhisattvas.
- Tripiṭaka. Sūtrapiṭaka. Lalitavistara.
- Tripiṭaka.
- Comparative literature--Themes, motives.
- Comparative literature.
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes in 1 : illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Buddha and the Bodhisattva.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam : Philo Press, 1976.
- Notes:
- Plates X-LXXIII reproduce the series of sixty-four woodcuts in the Augsburg edition of Barlaam und Jehosaphat printed in 1477.
- Includes the Acts of St. Thomas in India.
- Reprint. Originally published: Cambridge : University Press, 1923.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9060224817
- OCLC:
- 63615582
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