Mahāvastu

Mahāvastu (sanskrit for «stor hendelse» eller «stor historie») er en tekst fra skolen Lokottaravāda blant de tidlige buddhistiske skolene. Den beskriver seg selv som å være et historisk forord til den buddhistiske klosterdisiplin (vinaya). Over halve teksten er satt sammen av Jātaka- og Avadāna fortellinger, nedtegnelser om tidligere liv til Buddha og andre bodhisattvaer.^[1]^[2]

Referanser

^ "Mahāvastu" (2008).
^ Jones (1949), p. xi, writes: ""... the Mahāvastu is not the composition of a single author written in a well-defined period of time. Rather, it is a compilation which may have been begun in the second century B.C., but which was not completed until the third or fourth century A.D."

[eb-1] "Mahāvastu" (2008).

[2] Jones (1949), p. xi, writes: ""... the Mahāvastu is not the composition of a single author written in a well-defined period of time. Rather, it is a compilation which may have been begun in the second century B.C., but which was not completed until the third or fourth century A.D."

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