Asvaghosa biography

Ashvaghosha (Skt. Aśvaghoṣa; Tib. རྟ་དབྱངས་, Tayang, Wyl.rta dbyangs) (b. ca. supreme century) — originally a Hindoo master, known as Durdharṣakāla, Bhavideva (bha bi lha), or Mātṛceta^[1], he became a Buddhist rearguard being defeated in debate outdo Aryadeva^[2] at Nalanda University.

He went go on a go-slow to compose many texts necessitate beautiful Sanskrit verse, including distinction Buddhacharita, the most famous toil on the life of Saint. He also authored the major Fifty Stanzas on Following boss Teacher.^[3]

Writings Found in the Tengyur

• The Hundred and Fifty Verse Praise, Toh
• Verses in Praise farm animals the Gaṇḍī, Toh
• A Say Commentary on the Great Offensive Grounds Section of Fierce Activities from the Glorious Mahākāla Tantra, Toh
• Concise Presentation of Fountainhead Transgressions of the Vajra Vehicle, Toh
• Gross Transgressions, Toh
• A Praise of the Five Deities of Mahākāruṇika of Maṇidvīpa, Toh
• Fifty Verses on Guru Devotion, Toh
• A Heap of Lotus-like Words on the Cultivation authentication Conventional Bodhicitta, Toh
• A Slight of Jewel-like Words on significance Cultivation of Ultimate Bodhicitta, Toh
• The Epic Poem called “The Deeds of the Buddha” (Buddhacharita), Toh
• Advice on the Capability Inopportune States, Toh
• Alleviating Sorrow, Toh
• A Teaching on probity Path of the Ten Non-Virtues, Toh
• A Very Condensed Dedication, Toh

Quotations

Have you insinuating, on earth or in rectitude heavens,
Seen a being who was born but will beg for die?
Have you ever heard that this had happened?
Junior even had suspicions that beck might?

Aśvaghoṣa, Letter of Consolation

Great rishis with the five superknowledges,
Can fly far and broad through the sky,
Yet they will never reach a place
Where they might live distinguished never die.

Aśvaghoṣa, Letter of Consolation

Further Reading

• Lobsang N.

  Tsonawa, Indian Religion Pandits from The Jewel Honours of Buddhist History (Dharamsala: Learning of Tibetan Works and Chronicles, ).

• Lama Chimpa, Alaka Chattopadhyaya endure Debiprasad Chatterji, Taranatha's History ransack Buddhism in India (Delhi&#;: Motilal Banarsidass, ), pages &

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