Avadāna (Sanskrit; Pali: Apadāna) is the name given to a type of Buddhist literature correlating past lives' virtuous deeds to subsequent lives' events...
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Divyavadana (redirect from Rudrāyaṇa-avadāna)
Koṭikarṇa-avadāna Pūrṇa-avadāna Maitreya-avadāna Brāhmaṇadārikā-avadāna Stutibrāhmaṇa-avadāna Indrabrāhmaṇa-avadāna Nagarāvalambikā-avadāna Supriya-avadāna...
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Arjun Rampal (redirect from Kunal Avadana)
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...
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Kshemendra (redirect from Avadana Kalpalata)
Somendra, provides details about his father in his introduction to the Avadana Kalpalata and other works. Kshemendra refers to himself in his works as...
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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...
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Buddha on the snowy mountain, Vietnam, 18th century Shakyamuni Buddha with Avadana Legend Scenes, Tibetan, 19th century Golden Thai Buddha statue, Bodh Gaya...
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Borobudur (section The stories of Buddha's previous life (Jataka) and other legendary people (Avadana))
thereby inculcates. Avadanas are similar to jatakas, but the main figure is not the Bodhisattva himself. The saintly deeds in avadanas are attributed to...
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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...
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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...
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includes various collections of stories such as the Jātaka tales and the Avadānas (Pali: Apadāna). These are moral fables and legends dealing with the previous...
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