📖 A Study of Avadāna Narratives and the Communities that Read Them in Early Medieval China (A free, 197-page thesis from 2013)
Tags: #Medieval #ZenHistory #Avadana
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/booklets/anthologizing-buddhists_yost-tyson
Anthologizing Buddhists: A Study of Avadāna Narratives and the Communities that Read Them in Early Medieval China
a study of avadāna narratives found in two related anthologies, the Za piyu jing 雜譬喻經 (T207) and the Zhong jing xuan za piyu 眾經撰雜譬喻 (T208). […] These narratives are carefully constructed literary productions that offer a window into both the world of the Indic society in which they were initially composed and the Chinese society which translated them.
📰 A Story of Ordination by Messenger from the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya Translated from the Tibetan Version (A free, 44-page article from 2017)
Tags: #Bhikkhuni #Avadana #StoryTime
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/articles/dharmadinna-becomes-nun-story-of_yao-fumi
Dharmadinnā Becomes a Nun: A Story of Ordination by Messenger from the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya Translated from the Tibetan Version
This paper presents an annotated English translation of the story of the nun Dharmadinnā, translated here for the first time from the Tibetan translation of the Kṣudrakavastu of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya. The protagonist is not able to enter the religious life because of her prenatal engagement and is finally ordained by an exceptional style of ordination ceremony performed through a messenger.
Lasting Inspiration
For most of the women who became foremost leading disciples, or etadagga sāvikā, of the Buddha Gotama, it was not only their meeting with a past buddha, but also their seeing the Buddha together with an awakened woman, a leading bhikkhunī disciple of the Buddha, that truly stimulated their inspiration and galvanized their aspiration.
Four Apadānas
The Buddhāpadāna further develops the concept of Buddha-field, in that it speaks of innumerable Buddha-fields in all ten directions in the multiverse. Thus the Apadānas clearly show the line of development from the concept of merit-field in the early Suttas to the Pure Land systems of later Mahāyāna.
☸️ The Traditions about the Buddha (known as) The Connection with Previous Deeds, or Why the Buddha Suffered (A free, 64-page canonical work from 2012)
Tags: #Avadana #Karma #Buddha
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/tha-ap392+cmy
ThaAp 392 Pubbakammapilotika Buddhāpadāna: The Traditions about the Buddha (known as) The Connection with Previous Deeds, or Why the Buddha Suffered
This is a Pāli-English translation of ten stories from the commentary to Apadāna 39.10 on the unwholesome actions undertaken by the Bodhisatta in past lives and their karmic repercussions in his final life.
☸️ The Storehouse of Sundry Valuables (A free, 274-page sūtra translation from 1994)
Tags: #CentralAsian #EarlyBuddhism #Avadana
https://buddhistuniversity.net/content/canon/t0203
T0203 雜寶藏經: The Storehouse of Sundry Valuables
A collection of 121 stories ostensibly from the Sarvāstivāda spanning from the time of Śākyamuni and his disciples to the era of King Kaniṣka and Aśvaghoṣa in the second century C.E.
Avadāna: The Traditions about the Bodhisattva
This work presents the poplar Buddhist story of Sudhana and Manoharā, found in the Avadāna, through photographs from Borobudur in Java.
The Pāli Apadāna Collection
A general introduction to the collection.
Prince Sudhana And The Kinnarī: An Indian Love-story in Ajanta
Visiting the caves of Ajanta in October 1969, I had the pleasure to identify another artistic representation of the Sudhana story.
The Nandimitrāvadāna: A Living Text From the Buddhist Tradition
This dissertation offers a comprehensive treatment of the textual sources of the Nandimitrāvadāna, a Buddhist narrative which is deemed an authoritative source for the cult of the Elders or Arhats in Central and East Asia.
The Open Buddhist University