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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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  • saint of India, appearing in the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat Giosafat Barbaro (1413–94), Venetian explorer and diplomat Josephat T. Benoit (1900–76), mayor...
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  • Look up Barlaam in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Barlaam may refer to: Barlaam, legendary Christian saint, teacher of prince Josaphat in India in the...
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    the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat.[citation needed] According to Ahmadiyya thought, the name Yuz Asaf is of Buddhist derivation, and possibly from Yusu...
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    life, but is widely reproduced and considered to contain elements of some value. The hagiographic novel Barlaam and Josaphat is a work of the 10th century...
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    version of the legend of Barlaam and Josaphat. His version is not to be confused with the verse romance Barlaam und Josaphat (c.1220) of Rudolf von Ems...
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    Roza Bal (category Buildings and structures in Srinagar)
    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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    Great Renunciation (category Buddhist belief and doctrine)
    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. Although...
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    Aristides's work had been in fact extant and edited in the religious book The Life of Barlaam and Josaphat since the 7th century. Another fragment of...
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    earlier into Greek by Saint John of Damascus and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat, became so popular that the two were venerated...
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  • Gautama Buddha in world religions (category Buddhism and other religions)
    Barlaam and Ioasaph were placed in the Greek Orthodox calendar of saints on 26 August, and in the West they were entered as "Barlaam and Josaphat" in...
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    Unicorn (category Human gender and sexuality symbols)
    unicorns. However, when the unicorn appears in the medieval legend of Barlaam and Josaphat, ultimately derived from the life of the Buddha, it represents death...
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    from the story of Barlaam and Josaphat. Gostanza loves Martuccio Gomito and after hearing that he is dead, gives way to despair, and hides her alone aboard...
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  • due to their historical importance. The legend of Barlaam and Josaphat was derived, via Arabic and Georgian versions, from the life story of Siddartha...
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  • Wisdom (1892), Howell's Letters (1892), Barlaam and Josaphat (1896), The Thousand and One Nights (6 vols, 1896), and others. Jacobs was also a contributor...
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  • Balaam (1891–1985), Australian physician Barlaam, the legendary Christian saint from the story Barlaam and Josaphat Balam (demon) A character in Owen Wister's...
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    of Damascus, and widely circulated to Christians as the story of Barlaam and Josaphat. Height of the Classic period in pre-Columbian Maya civilization...
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    Jesus in Ahmadiyya (category Ahmadiyya belief and doctrine)
    Walter, like later scholars, identified the Islamic version of the Barlaam and Josaphat story as the primary of Ahmad's evidence despite the fact that the...
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    Early Texts Society for the Serbian version of Barlaam and Josaphat from Old Greek. In the 1450s and 1460s he resided at the Trinity Monastery of St...
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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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  • November 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2020. Pitts, Monique B. (1981). "Barlaam and Josaphat: A Legend for All Seasons". Journal of South Asian Literature. 16...
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  • revenged), an 1806-line epic poem (c. 1190). A French version of Barlaam and Josaphat (c. 1220-1225) has also been tentatively attributed to de Cambrai...
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    of Buddha, though it would have reached him through the story of Barlaam and Josaphat, adopted as the subject of one of Lope de Vega's comedies: the idea...
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  • works by Köpke include: "Barlaam und Josaphat, von Rudolf von Montfort", (1818) – An edition of Rudolf von Ems' "Barlaam and Josaphat". "Geschichte der Bibliothek...
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    Gebiete des deutschen Altertums Altdeutsches Übungsbuch. He edited: Barlaam und Josaphat, Rudolf von Ems (1843) Der Edelstein, Ulrich Boner (1844) Die deutschen...
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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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    elements from the play may be derived from the Christian legend of Barlaam and Josaphat, which Lope de Vega had brought to the stage.[failed verification]...
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  • Christian feast day: Acarius of Tournai Barlaam and Josaphat Bilihildis of Altmünster Congar of Congresbury Facundus and Primitivus Humilis of Bisignano James...
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  • of religious and moralizing tales is to be found in Chardri's Set dormans about the Seven Sleepers and Josaphat about Barlaam and Josaphat c. 1216 (Koch...
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  • dissertation on the origin and distribution of non-Christian tales that were forerunners to the Christian parable of Barlaam and Josaphat. He then studied at...
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