Buddhacarita

Buddhacarita ("Acts of the Buddha"; more accurately , Devanagari बुद्दचरितं) is an epic poem in the Sanskrit mahakavya style on the life of Gautama Buddha by , composed in the 2nd century AD. Of the poem's 28 cantos, the first 14 are extant in Sanskrit complete (cantos 1 and 14 in incomplete form).
In 420, made a Chinese translation, and in the 7th or 8th century, a very accurate Tibetan version was made.
==English Translations==
*E.B. Cowell, The Buddha Carita or the Life of the Buddha. 1894, reprinted with text, New Delhi, 1977.
*Samuel Beal, The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King. Oxford, 1883. English translation of the Chinese version
*Buddhist Mahâyâna Texts. Oxford, 1894. Cantos 1-13 in English, with four supplementary cantos dating to the 19th century
*E. H. Johnston, The Buddhacarita or Acts of the Buddha. Lahore, 1936. 2 vols. (Cantos 1-14 in Sanskrit and English)
*Patrick Olivelle, Life of the Buddha. Clay Sanskrit Library, 2008. 1 vols. (Cantos 1-14 in Sanskrit and English with summary of the Chinese cantos not available in the Sanskrit)
==External links==
*Cowell's edition in Roman characters with supplements from Johnson's edition
*same in Devanagari characters
*Cowell's text and translation (verse by verse)
*Cowell's translation (only)
*Buddhist Studies: Buddhacarita
Category:Epic poems
Category:Sanskrit texts
Category:Mahayana texts
Category:Tibetan Buddhist texts
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