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r6. For extracts from the Mahiivastu and Buddhacarita see Edward
Conze, Buddhist Scriptures (Harmondsworth, 1959), 19-66; for the
Nidiinakathii see Jayawickrama; The Story of Gotama Buddha.
17. e.g. Paul Bigandet, The Life or Legend of Gaudama the Buddha
of the Burmese (London, I9II), a translation of an early modern
Burmese text; Thich Nhat Hanh, Old Paths, White Clouds (London,
1992), a modern telling of the story drawing on a variety of anci-
ent sources. See Frank Reynolds, 'The Many Lives of Buddha', in
Donald Capps and Frank Reynolds (eds.), The Biographical Pro-
cess (The Hague, 1976), 37-61 for further examples.
r8. For Tibetan tradition, see Eugene Obermiller (trans.), History of
Buddhism (Chos-/:lbyung by Bu-ston) (Heidelberg, 1931-2), ii.
7-72; for the Theravada, see Buddhavarp.sa-atthakatha 298.
19. Adapted from Hultzshch's translation; see Thomas, Life of the
Buddha, r8.
20. Bellanwila Wimalaratana, Concept of Great Man (mahiipurisa) in
Buddhist Literature and Iconography (Singapore, n.d.).
- Aiiguttara Nikaya i. 145-6.
- Majjhima Nikaya i. So, 245; cf. Lalitavistara ii. 387 (Lefmann ed.
(Halle, 1902-8), 254).
23. Jataka i. 71 (Jayawickrama, The Story of Gotama Buddha, 94).
- Cf. Majjhima Nikaya i. 21-3 and Digha Nikaya ii. 30-35, Majjhima
Nikaya i. 167, Sarp.yutta Nikaya ii. 104-6; see Etienne Lamotte,
'Conditioned Co-production and Supreme Enlightenment', in
Somaratna Balasooriya et al. (eds.), Buddhist Studies in Honour of
Walpola Rahula (London, 1980), rr8-32.
- Lalitavistara ii. 490-97 (Lefmann ed. 325-31 ). This incident
(Sarp.yutta Nikaya i. 124, Suttanipata v. 835) is placed in a different
context in Pali sources, see Na!)amoli, Life of the Buddha, 60-4.
- Majjhima Nikaya i. 167.
- For example, the Tevijja Sutta explains the way to companionship.
with Brahma as meditation on loving kindness, sympathetic joy,
compassion, and equanimity (Digha Nikaya i. 235-53). See also
Atthasalini 129.
- Piili Chanting with Translations (Bangkok, 1974); cf. Majjhima
Nikaya i. r68.
- Buddhavarp.sa-atthakatha 3 does this for the first twenty years of
the Buddha's teaching career.
30. Translation adapted from Rhys Davids, Dialogues of the Buddha,
ii. 107 (Digha Nikaya ii. roo).
- Digha Nikaya ii. 144.
