| Baralam and Yewasef: Volume 2: Being the Ethiopic Version of a Christianized Recension of the Buddhist Legend of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva Contributor(s): Budge, Ernest Wallis (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1107643716 ISBN-13: 9781107643710 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $46.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | African - Religion | Buddhism - General (see Also Philosophy - Buddhist) |
| Dewey: 294.333 |
| Series: Library of Arcana |
| Physical Information: 1.37" H x 6" W x 9" (1.98 lbs) 620 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Buddhist - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Originally published in 1923, this book by highly esteemed Orientalist Ernest Wallis Budge contains an English translation of the Ethiopic text of the tale of Baral m and Yĕw sĕf, a Christianized version of the Buddhist legend of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva. Budge also examines versions of the story in other linguistic traditions, including Persian and Armenian, and revised translations of The Preaching of St Thomas in India and The Acts of St Thomas in India, which he originally published in 1899. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the transmission and adaptation of folklore or in early Christianity. |