Manuscript Digital Library
3,219+ South Asian manuscripts from repositories across the world
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_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_132
An Avadāna text, being the 8th chapter of the Aśokāvadānamālā (Matsunami, 1965, p. 55) , is a part of the Aśoka-Upagupta chronicles, in which Upagupta narrates and explai...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_131
An Avadāna text, being the 8th chapter of the Aśokāvadānamālā (Matsunami, 1965, p. 55) , is a part of the Aśoka-Upagupta chronicles, in which Upagupta narrates and explai...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_130
An Avadāna text, being the 8th chapter of the Aśokāvadānamālā (Matsunami, 1965, p. 55) , is a part of the Aśoka-Upagupta chronicles, in which Upagupta narrates and explai...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_124
This manuscript contains the third chapter of Ratnamālāvadāna text, a collection of stories about the previous Buddhas. It is written in a dialogue format between Sage Up...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_110
This manuscript contains the first chapter of Avadānaratnamālā text, a collection of stories about the previous Buddhas. It is written in a dialogue format between Sage U...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_102_2
An Avadāna text praises the giving of alms-bowls to Buddhist mendicants. The story tells of Sarvānanda, the king of the great city of Dīpavatī, who once visited the renow...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_102_1
This text is based on Chapter 22 of the Saddharmapuṇḍarīkasūtra, titled Bhaiṣajyarājapūrvayoga-parivarta. However, it appears to recount a similar story of the Bodhisattv...
General Library, The University of Tokyo
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matsunami_83
A Jātaka story taken from the Vratāvadānamālā, in which Upagupta tells the story of Prince Kavikumāra to King Aśoka. According to Upagupta’s narration, this story was fir...