Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_181
A compilation of Buddhist birth stories of relatively late origin—much of which, particularly the prose sections, was borrowed from the Avadānaśataka (Turner & Turner, Co...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_180
A compilation of Buddhist birth stories of relatively late origin, much of which—particularly the prose sections—was borrowed from the Avadānaśataka (Turner & Turner, Col...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_175
A Buddhist text describes several mantras related to Mahāpratyaṅgirā, a deity in the Tantric Buddhist pantheon. At the beginning of the manuscript, the iconography of the...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_173
This is an extract from the Mahāvastu-Avadāna that describes Kaśyapa's account of Dīpaṅkara Buddha to Maudgalyāyana (Mitra, 1882, pp. 115–119). However, the colophon of t...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_171
The Divyāvadāna is a collection of avadāna stories compiled between the 3rd and 4th centuries, and is one of the largest and earliest sources of Indian Buddhist narrative...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_170
The Divyāvadāna is a collection of avadāna stories compiled between the 3rd and 4th centuries, and is one of the largest and earliest sources of Indian Buddhist narrative...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_166
This Buddhist treatise describes ten different stages that one should go through before attaining Buddhahood. These stages are known as bhūmis, from which the title of th...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_165
This Buddhist treatise describes ten different stages that one should go through before attaining Buddhahood. These stages are known as bhūmis, from which the title of th...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_163
A Buddhist Dhāraṇī text written in the Newari language, composed in 24 verses, mentions several deities, demigods, and demons—such as Gandharva, Madanadeva, Daitya, Sūrya...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_162
A Buddhist Dharmaśāstra text describes the rituals performed during the ten rites (Daśakarma) associated with a newborn. This text is composed in two languages: the main...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_159
This is a composite manuscript containing three works, the first work of which is incomplete. The pagination begins with the colophon section of the Tathāgatoṣṇīṣasitātap...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_158
This is a Buddhist Dhāraṇī text praising the deity Tārā. This text is the same as Sl. No. 157, although the manuscript is arranged in reverse order. On folio 6b, the titl...