Concept
Buddhacharita
Overview
Sanskrit Buddhist epic describing the life of the Buddha
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Among them there is a Sramana of great virtue, named Dharma-gupta, honored and looked up to by all the kingdom. He has lived for more than forty years in an apartment of stone, constantly showing such gentleness of heart, that he has brought snakes and rats to stop together in the same room, without doing one another any harm.
Confucius, Chinese literature
Close in meaning to Buddhacharita; the term itself is not named.
As a reward, on the other hand, it promises re-birth in better, nobler forms, as Brahmans, wise men, or saints. The highest reward, which awaits the noblest deeds and the completest resignation, which is also given to the woman who in seven successive lives has voluntarily died on the funeral pile of her husband, and not less to the man whose pure mouth has never uttered a single lie,—this reward the myth can only…
Arthur Schopenhauer, The World as Will and Idea
Close in meaning to Buddhacharita; the term itself is not named.
The Vedantists say that one may stumble into superconsciousness sporadically, without the previous discipline, but it is then impure. Their test of its purity, like our test of religion’s value, is empirical: its fruits must be good for life. When a man comes out of Samâdhi, they assure us that he remains “enlightened, a sage, a prophet, a saint, his whole character changed, his life changed, illumined.”(244) The…
William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience
Close in meaning to Buddhacharita; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Buddhacharita
Related ideas
Place in the tradition
Part of Nondualism.