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Lives of Great Monks and Nuns
By: Li Rongxi, Albert A. Dalia
Lives of Great Monks and Nuns, Li Rongxi, Albert A. Dalia


 
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Translator: Li Rongxi, Albert A. Dalia
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 1886439141
Publication Date: 2006


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Lives of Great Monks and Nuns is a collection of five translated texts on the lives of prominent monks and nuns. A brief description of each text follows. The Life of Asvaghosa Bodhisattva gives a brief account of how Asvaghosa was converted from Brahmanism to Buddhism by Parsva. In the history of the development of Buddhism, Asvaghosa is considered one of the founders of Mahayana Buddhism. Besides being a Buddhist theorist with significant influence on the development of Mahayana Buddhism, he was also the initiator of Buddhist chanting and hymn singing. The Life of Nagarjuna Bodhisattva is a legendary account of the life of Nagarjuna, the well-known Mahayana scholar and founder of the Madhyamika school of Buddhism in ancient India. A native of southern India who lived in the second half of the second century C. E., Nagarjuna exerted a profound influence on the development of Buddhism in his own time and in later ages.

Lives of Great Monks and Nuns, Li Rongxi, Albert A. Dalia, Numata Center, Hardcover, 2002, 245 pp, $40.00

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