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• Books (1)
• Readings (10)
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• Related Topics (1)

Books (1)

Explorations of Misfortune in the Buddha’s Life: the Buddha’s Misdeeds in His Former Lives and Their Remnants (2009) – Stephan Hillyer Levitt

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Readings (10)

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• Avadāna Episodes: Texts from the Split Collection 5 (2022) – Harry Falk and Elisabeth Steinbrückner

  A couple pages from the first century BCE containing summaries of eleven Avadāna stories, including one authorizing the use of magic seals and one on the practice of self-immolation.

  40 pages

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• A Translation of the Story of an Angry Monk Who Became a Poisonous Snake in the Muktaka of the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya ─ Part Two: Partial Parallels to the Avadāna-śataka (2022) – Ryohji Kishino

  This article is a comparison and translation of a story found in the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya, preserved in both Chinese and Tibetan manuscripts.

  33 pages

  Online pdf

See also:

The Karma-Vibhanga Reliefs at Borobudur (2020) – Bhikkhu Ānandajoti

How to Make and Spend Money: Some Stories from the Indian Classical Literature (2019) – Phyllis Granoff

Animal Omens in Buddhist Sanskrit Literature: The call of the crow, the howl of the jackal, and the knowledge of the wagtail (2023) – Kenneth G. Zysk

Amazing Transformations of Arahant Theri Uppalavanna (2011) – Ayya Tathālokā

Karma here and now in a Mūlasarvāstivāda Avadāna: How the Bodhisattva changed sex and was born as a female 500 times (2018) – Bhikkhunī Dhammadinnā

Eṣā agrā: Images of Nuns in (Mūla-)Sarvāstivādin Literature (2001) – Peter Skilling

Once Upon a Present Time: An Avadānist from Gandhāra (2004) – Tim Lenz

The Female Past in Early Indian Buddhism: The Shared Narrative of the Seven Sisters in the Therī-Apadāna (2011) – Alice Collett

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Audio/Video (2)

The Buddha’s Footprint (Interview) (2020) – Johan Elverskog

Many Buddhas, One Buddha (Interview) (2020) – Naomi Appleton

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• Canonical Rebirth Stories