Asvaghosha ( Devanagari : अश्वघोष; presumed. Lifetime - I half of the 1st century AD [1] ) - Indian poet, playwright, Buddhist preacher.
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Biography
Born in Ayodhya (modern Aud ) in a Brahmin family. According to tradition, before conversion to Buddhism, he was a Shivaite , then he became a student of the bhikshu Parshva or his disciple Punyayashas . He became famous as a thinker and poet at the court of the Kushan emperor Kanishka . Proponents of Mahayana teachings attribute Ashwaghosh to the main authorities, along with Nagarjuna and Aryadeva .
Ashvagosha was the twelfth patriarch of Buddhism , according to the generally accepted list in Zen and the Sutra of the teacher transfer of the Dharma pitaki [2] [3] , and the eighteenth, according to the expanded list in the Sutra of the platform of the sixth patriarch [4] .
Creativity
He wrote in Sanskrit . He was credited with many works. Of these, probably only three are genuine - the poem "Buddhacharita", the poem "Sundarananda" and the drama "Sharinutrakarana". The poem “Buddhacharita” (“The Life of the Buddha”) - about the life of the Buddha , contains 28 songs in Chinese and Tibetan translations (only 13 and a half songs came from the Sanskrit original). In the poem “Sundarananda” (“About Nanda and Sundari”), the story of the half-brother of Buddha Nanda, yearning for his beloved Sundari, but under the influence of Buddha's sermons, gradually realizing the vanity of earthly desires, sets out the principles of Buddhism philosophy.
Only fragments of the drama “Shariputrakarana” (aka “Shariputraprakarana”, “Prakarana about Shariputra”; prakarana is the genus of the drama), which is one of the first Sanskrit plays, are preserved. She strictly follows the canons of dramaturgy set forth in Bharatiyanatyanashastra. The Chinese translation has preserved a collection of legends in prose and poems of the edifying nature of "Sutralankara."
Notes
- ↑ Bongard-Levin, 1990 , p. 36.
- ↑ Suzuki D.T. , Katsuki S. Zen Buddhism: The Basics of Zen Buddhism. Zen practice. - Bishkek: MP “Odyssey”, 1993. - S. 110. - 672 p. - (Library of Eastern religious and mystical philosophy). - ISBN 5-89750-046-0 .
- ↑ Nukaria K. Religion of the Samurai. A study of Zen Buddhist philosophy and practice in China and Japan / Per. from English O. B. Makarova, under the editorship of S.V. Pakhomova. - SPb. : Science , 2003 .-- S. 17 .-- 248 p. - ISBN 5-02-026857-7 .
- ↑ Abaev N.V. Chan Buddhism and cultural-psychological traditions in medieval China. - 2nd ed .. - Novosibirsk: Nauka , 1989 .-- S. 221. - 272 p.
Literature
- Ashwaghosh. Fifty stanzas of the pious veneration of the Master (Gurupanchashik) / Per. from English A.I. Breslavets. - SPb. : Clear Light, 1995 .-- 48 p. - ISBN 5-87761-008-2 .
- Buddha's life. Translation by C. Balmont . Moscow, 1913 ;
- Life of Buddha / Ashwaghosh. Dramas / Calidas / Per. C. Balmont ; Introduction, entry. article, essays, scientific ed. G. Bongard-Levin . - M .: Fiction , 1990. - 573 p. - ISBN 5-280-01241-6 .
Links
- P.A. Grinzer. Sanskrit literature of the first centuries A.D. e.
- Ashwaghosh (inaccessible link from 05/21/2013 [2262 days] - history , copy )
- Ashwaghosh - an article from the Great Soviet Encyclopedia .