Romantic Legends of Sakya Buddha

This work is a translation of the Chinese version of the Abhiniskramana Sutra done into that language by Djnanakuta, a Buddhist priest from North India. It refers to Buddha's leaving the palace for a religious life, as in Buddha's flight from his palace to become an ascetic. The legend also includes Buddha's previous and subsequent history. The work is called Romantic Legend, because, as is well known, the first romances were merely metrical histories. There can be no doubt that the present work contains,so to speak, some of the earliest verses in which the History of Buddha was sung, long before the work itself was penned. The inscriptions found on Buddhist ruins, recently discovered in India, confirm this hypothesis. Many of the stories related in this work are found sculptured at Sanchi and Barhut.The interest of the book will be found to result from the stories which throw light on contemporaneous architectural works in India. Samuel Beal, born on 27 November 1825, was a distinguished Oriental scholar, and the first Englishman to translate directly from the Chinese the early records of Buddhism, thus throwing light upon Indian history. Samuel Beal was born in Devonport, Devon, and went to Kingswood School and Devonport. He graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1847. From 1848-50, he was headmaster of Bramham College, Yorkshire. He was ordained deacon in 1850, and priest in the following year. After serving as curate at Brooke in Norfolk and Sopley in Hampshire, he applied for the office of naval chaplain, and was appointed to H.M.S. Sybille (1847) during the China War of 1856–58. He was awarded DCL (Durham) in 1885 "in recognition of the value of his researches into Chinese Buddhism." His reputation was established by his series of works which traced the travels of the Chinese Buddhists in India from the fifth to the seventh centuries AD. The Title 'Romantic Legends of Sakya Buddha written/authored/edited by Samuel Beal', published in the year 2019. The ISBN 9788121218061 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 410 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Religion & Spirituality. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-