Baralâm and Yĕwâsěf
Subtitle: being the Ethiopic version of a Christianized recension of the Buddhist legend of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva
By: the Ethiopic text edited for the first time with an English translation and introduction, etc., by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge.
Contributors: Budge, E. A. Wallis Sir, 1857-1934 ed. and tr.
Publisher: University Press
Published: 1923
Place of publication: Cambridge, [Eng.]
Language: eng; gez
Subjects: Buddhism.; Legends, Buddhist.; Literature, Comparative -- Themes, motives.
Other titles: Acts of Thomas.
Work titles: Barlaam and Joasaph. English & Ethiopic.
Notes: Plates X-LXXIII reproduce the series of sixty-four woodcuts in the Augsburg edition of Barlaam und Jehosaphat printed in 1477.
Table of contents: title: I. Ethiopic text.; title: II. The introduction: I. The Book of Barlaam and Iȯasaph. II. The Indian sources of the Book of Barlaam and Iȯasaph. III. Note on a manuscript of the "Lalita vistara" in the library of the Royal Asiatic society, by Dr. L. Barnett. IV. Summary of the "Lalita vistara". V. The Jȧtakas, or birth stories of the Buddha. VI. The Pehlevi version of the Book of Barlaam and Iȯasaph. The versions. English translation. The preaching of St. Thomas in India. The Acts of St. Thomas in India. List of Bible passages quoted or referred to.