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Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King — A Life of Buddha by Asvaghosha (SBE Vol. 19; trans. Samuel Beal)

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The Fo-Sho-Hing-Tsan-King:

A Life of Buddha by Asvaghosha Bodhisattva,

translated from Sanskrit into Chinese by Dharmaraksha A.D. 420,

and From Chinese into English

by Samuel Beal

Sacred Books of the East Vol. 19

[1883]

Kiouen I

Varga 1. The Birth

Varga 2. Living in the Palace

Varga 3. Disgust at Sorrow

Varga 4. Putting Away Desire

Varga 5. Leaving the City

Kiouen II

Varga 6. The Return of Kandaka

Varga 7. Entering the Place (Wood) of Austerities

Varga 8. The General Grief of the Palace

Varga 9. The Mission to Seek the Prince

Kiouen III

Varga 10. Bimbasâra Râga Invites The Prince

Varga 11. The Reply To Bimbasâra Râga

Varga 12. Visit To Arâda Udrarâma

Varga 13. Defeats Mâra

Varga 14. O-Wei-San-Pou-Ti (Abhisambodhi)

Varga 15. Turning The Law-Wheel

Kiouen IV

Varga 16. Bimbisâra Râga Becomes A Disciple

Varga 17. The Great Disciple Becomes A Hermit

Varga 18. Conversion of the 'Supporter of the Orphans and Destitute'

Varga 19. Interview Between Father and Son

Varga 20. Receiving the Getavana Vihâra

Varga 21. Escaping the Drunken Elephant and Devadatta

Varga 22. The Lady Âmrâ (Âmrapâlî) Sees Buddha

Kiouen V

Varga 23. By Spiritual Power Fixing His (Term of) Years

Varga 24. The Differences of the Likkhavis

Varga 25. Parinirvâna

Varga 26. Mahâparinirvâna

Varga 27. Praising Nirvâna

Varga 28. Division of the Sarîras

Notes

I. Comparative List of 17 Chapters of the Sanskrit and Chinese Copies of the Buddhakarita

Note II. Example of the Style of the Expanded Sûtras, as Translated into Chinese

Note III. The Same Title Given to Different Works