“The figure of the forest hermit and the practice of tapas in the Mahāvastu and the Pāli canon
Giacomo Benedetti”
“1. The Mahāvastu is mainly a biography of the Buddha with numerous digressions in the form of
Jātakas. n many of them, even more often than in Pāli Jātakas, we find the Bodhisattva or other
characters adopting the ṛṣipravrajyā (Pāli isipabbajjā) ‘departure (from the worldly life)”
This is to celebrate me getting the Pali Text Society [ON SALE !] volumes.
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