The Buddha's path to awakening / translated by Sarah Shaw.
| Other author | Shaw, Sarah, 1955- translator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2025. |
| Copyright Date | ©2025 |
| Description | xxxv, 350 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Murty classical library of India ; Murty classical library of India ; 40. ^A1368616 |
| Abstract | "The Buddha's Path to Awakening is the first complete prose narrative that describes Gotama Buddha's search for freedom. It starts many eons in the past when the hero of this work, Gotama Buddha, first takes the Bodhisatta vow to postpone his own awakening until the time he can teach others too. He renews this vow in the presence of Buddhas throughout history. Finally, after a long quest, he achieves his aim and becomes a Buddha. The work closes when he is fully awakened, now a teacher of gods and humans"-- Provided by publisher. |
| General note | "The text in this edition is based on the first volume of the transliterated six-volume series of the Jātakatthavaṇṇanā ... published for the first time in the original Pali by V. Fausbøll in 1877, as The Jātaka Together with its Commentary, Being Tales of the Anterior Births of Gotama Buddha. The work translated here, Jātakanidāna (the Cause of the Jatakas), although independent, forms its introduction"--Page xxxiii. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | In English and Pali. |
| Related Item | Based on (work): Jātaka. London, Trübner & Co.; [etc., etc.] 1875-1897 |
| Contains title | Container of (expression): Jātakanidāna. (Shaw) |
| Contains title | Container of (expression): Jātakanidāna. English (Shaw) |
| LCCN | 2024003684 |
| ISBN | 9780674296527 |
| ISBN | 0674296524 hardcover |
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