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By John Damascene, G. R. Woodward, Harold Mattingly, David M. Lang

ISBN-10: 0674990382

ISBN-13: 9780674990388

The most effective identified examples of the hagiographic novel, this can be the story of an Indian prince who turns into conscious of the world's miseries and is switched over to Christianity through the monk Barlaam. Barlaam and Josaphat (Ioasaph) have been believed to have re-converted India after her lapse from conversion to Christianity, they usually have been numbered one of the Christian saints. Centuries in the past likenesses have been spotted among the lifetime of Josaphat and the lifetime of the Buddha; the resemblances are in incidents, doctrine, and philosophy, and Barlaam's ideas of abstinence resemble the Buddhist monk's. yet now not until eventually the mid-nineteenth century was once it known that, in Josaphat, the Buddha were honored as a Christian saint for roughly one thousand years. The foundation of the tale of Barlaam and Ioasaph—which in itself has little bizarre to Buddhism—appears to be a Manichaean tract produced in imperative Asia. It used to be welcomed by means of the Arabs and via the Georgians. The Greek romance of Barlaam seems individually first within the eleventh century. many of the Greek manuscripts characteristic the tale to John the Monk, and it is just a few later scribes who establish this John with John Damascene (ca. 676–749). there's powerful facts in Latin and Georgian in addition to Greek that it used to be the Georgian Euthymius (who died in 1028) who brought on the tale to be translated from Georgian into Greek, the full being reshaped and supplemented. The Greek romance quickly unfold all through Christendom, and used to be translated into Latin, previous Slavonic, Armenian, and Arabic. An English model (from Latin) was once utilized by Shakespeare in his caskets scene within the service provider of Venice. David M. Lang's creation lines parallels among the Buddhist and Christian legends, discusses the significance of Arabic types, and notes affects of the Manichaean creed.

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