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    Barlaam and Josaphat, also known as Bilawhar and Budhasaf, are Christian saints. Their life story was based on the life of the Gautama Buddha, who historically...
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  • octosyllabic couplets, have survived: La vie de seint Josaphaz presents Barlaam and Josaphat, a Christianized version of the life of Buddha, 2954 lines La vie...
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    Brunetto Latini, Nicholas Trivet, the Romans des sept sages, the Vita Barlaam et Josaphat, and the Historia Alexandri Magni. The best-known tales are those...
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  • with introduction by Jakob Grimm (1846). Johannes Damascenus's Barlaam und Josaphat (1847). John Colin Dunlop's Geschichte der Prosadichtungen (1851)...
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    Paris, Imprimerie Impériale 1867-1871 (3 volumes) Gui de Cambrai: Barlaam und Josaphat : französisches Gedicht des dreizehnten Jahrhunderts ; nebst Auszügen...
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    considered to contain elements of some value. The hagiographic novel Barlaam and Josaphat is a work of the 10th century attributed to a monk named John. It...
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  • misidentified material about the putative Christian saint "Yuzafa" from the Barlaam and Josaphat traditions telling a Christianized version of the life of Siddhartha...
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    legend of Barlaam and Josaphat, in Arabic Budasaf or Yuzasaf: Ikmal-ud-Din of Ibn Babuyah (d.962 AD) – regarded by scholars as concerning the Barlaam and Josaphat...
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    Renunciation can be found in the legend of the Christian saints Barlaam and Josaphat, one of the most popular and widespread legends in 11th-century Christianity...
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    Grönbold concluding that Ahmad had misidentified material from the Barlaam and Josaphat texts relating to a Christianized version of the life of Siddhartha...
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  • knights of the Holy Grail A commentary on the Le Roman spirituel de Barlaam et de Josaphat, published by Éditions Devenir in 1983 "FNAC entry". "WorldCat entry"...
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    of Damascus and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat, became so popular that the two were venerated as saints. Singapore...
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    The tale was quite common during the medieval era, appearing in Barlaam and Josaphat (written in the 8th century), an exemplum of Jacques de Vitry (13th...
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    Germanist Friedrich Karl Köpke, with his edition of Rudolf von Ems' Barlaam und Josaphat (1818), and also assisted his friend in a contemplated edition[clarification...
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    Iodasaph. The only story in which St. Josaphat appears, Barlaam and Josaphat, is based on the life of the Buddha. Josaphat was included in earlier editions...
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  • link of Armenia with Buddhism is the medieval Christian legend of Barlaam and Josaphat (Հովասափ եւ Բարաղամ, Yovasap‘ ew Barałam), which is inspired by the...
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  • Hakluyt Society, First series, Volume 50, pp. 39–54. Barlaam and Josaphat. The legend of Barlaam and Josaphat (Joasaph) is a Christianized version of one of...
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  • about the Seven Sleepers and Josaphat about Barlaam and Josaphat c. 1216 (Koch, Altfr. Bibl., 1880; G. Paris, Poèmes et légendes du moyen âge). Of arguably...
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    Romanian vernacular, in which he notably produced a translation of Barlaam and Josaphat. In his original works, his themes and his linguistic obscurities...
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    down to the triumph of Christianity under Constantine. The story of Barlaam and Josaphat occupies a great part of book xv.; and book xvi. gives an account...
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    Cyril of Jerusalem, a fourth-century Church Father. The legend of Barlaam and Josaphat passed from an Indian story about the Buddha, through a Manichaean...
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  • (1791–1858) Marenkova, Irina Mironenko (1 July 2013). "Folie en Christ à la romaine et à la moscovite : deux exemples de la religiosité chrétienne au XIXe siècle"...
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    (Βούττα) in his Stromata (Bk I, Ch XV). The legend of Christian saints Barlaam and Josaphat draws on the life of the Buddha. The idea of a Greek influence on...
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    the people of Alexandria. The romance of Balaam and Joasaph (also Barlaam and Josaphat) was another popular work of Byzantine origin now elevated to universal...
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  • across the Danubian Principalities, like the Alexander Romance and Barlaam and Josaphat. Particularly of note is The Teachings of Neagoe Basarab to his son...
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    Cântarea României, and presented Udriște Năsturel's translation of Barlaam and Josaphat. A separate chapter discussed Gheorghe Asachi's poetic debt to Adam...
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    Buddha found in the Buddhist texts of the 3rd century CE and the epic Barlaam and Josaphat. The latter is traditionally attributed to Saint John of Damascus...
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  • Louis II's 866–871 campaign against Bari, Siege of Barjawan Barlaam and Josaphat Barlaam of Seminara Basel, Council of Basil I Basil II Basil II, Epitaph...
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