Avadāna (Sanskrit; Pali: Apadāna) is the name given to a type of Buddhist literature correlating past lives' virtuous deeds to subsequent lives' events...

Koṭikarṇa-avadāna Pūrṇa-avadāna Maitreya-avadāna Brāhmaṇadārikā-avadāna Stutibrāhmaṇa-avadāna Indrabrāhmaṇa-avadāna Nagarāvalambikā-avadāna Supriya-avadāna...

Arjun Rampal (born 26 November 1972) is an Indian actor, model, film producer and television personality who works in Hindi films. He made his acting debut...

related to (and often overlap with) another genre of Buddhist narrative, the avadāna, which is a story of any karmically significant deed (whether by a bodhisattva...

Somendra, provides details about his father in his introduction to the Avadana Kalpalata and other works. Kshemendra refers to himself in his works as...

thereby inculcates. Avadanas are similar to jatakas, but the main figure is not the Bodhisattva himself. The saintly deeds in avadanas are attributed to...

Buddha on the snowy mountain, Vietnam, 18th century Shakyamuni Buddha with Avadana Legend Scenes, Tibetan, 19th century Golden Thai Buddha statue, Bodh Gaya...

in a number of later works, such as the Sanskrit Buddhacarita and the Avadāna-śataka, and the Pāli Mahāvaṃsa. According to Bareau, the oldest core components...

Jataka version is depicted in the Ajanta cave paintings of India (Simhala Avadana in Cave 17). The prince who comes to the island is a merchant named Sinhala...

mercy for the empress, but Ashoka had her executed anyway. Kshemendra's Avadana-kalpa-lata also narrates this legend, but seeks to improve Ashoka's image...