The Mahāvastu (Sanskrit for "Great Event" or "Great Story") is a canonical text of the Mahāsāṃghika Lokottaravāda school of Early Buddhism which was originally...

Lokottaravādin views are known from the Mahāvastu, which is a rare surviving Mahāsāṃghika text in Sanskrit. The Mahāvastu is a biography of the Buddha which...

Ltd. Jones, J.J. (1952), The Mahāvastu, Sacred Books of the Buddhists, vol. 2, London: Luzac & Co. ——— (1956), The Mahāvastu, Sacred Books of the Buddhists...

tradition, and early biographies such as the Buddhacarita, the Lokottaravādin Mahāvastu, the Sarvāstivādin Lalitavistara Sūtra, give different accounts about...

Sanskrit, sometimes with a Pali syntax, states Renou. The Mahāsāṃghika and Mahavastu, in their late Hinayana forms, used hybrid Sanskrit for their literature...

actions which lead to the manifestation of the marks of a great person. The Mahāvastu of the Mahāsāṃghika-Lokottaravādins presents various ideas regarding the...

Tibetan translation, which is popular in traditional Tibetan Buddhism "Mahāvastu" – a Lokottaravāda text with parallels to verses in the Pāli Dhammapada's...

number in Sanskrit collections, of which the chief are the Mahāsāṃghika's Mahāvastu ("Great Book") and the Sarvāstivāda's Avadānaśataka (Century of Legends)...

versions found in the Ekottarika āgama A Mahāsāṃghika version in the Mahāvastu A version contained within the Catusparisat-sūtra The Theravāda sutra...

Kathavatthu also argues against the idea that emptiness is unconditioned. The Mahāvastu, an influential Mahāsāṃghika work, states that the Buddha "has shown that...

the Buddha-to-be, before he is leaving his home. It is described in the Mahāvastu that several of the Buddha's relatives had premonitory dreams preceding...

defense minister and finance minister.: 175–176  The early Buddhist Mahāvastu (1.259f) and the Divyāvadāna, as well as the Theravadin Milindapañha,...

returned to his home city of Kapilavastu at the request of Śuddhodana. The Mahāvastu text from the Lokottaravāda tradition states that the royals tried to...

and Nidanakatha (Prologue to the Jatakas), as well as the Mahasamghika Mahāvastu, contain stories of how in a previous life, Sakyamuni (then known as Sumedha)...

Patanjali's commentary on it, do mention Saketa. The later Buddhist text Mahavastu describes Saketa as the seat of the Ikshvaku king Sujata, whose descendants...

Draupadi Amman temples. In Buddhism, Kṛṣṇā Draupadī is presented in the Mahāvastu and the Lalitavistara as one among eight goddesses who reside in the western...

the first fruits of his field in their nine stages of production. The Mahavastu gives another account explaining the origin of Kaundinya's vow to attain...

later date. Maitreya's prophecy also appears in other texts like the Māhavastu, Lalitavistara, the Mūlasarvāstivāda-vinaya and the Divyāvadāna. Due to...

Lokottaravāda school, since the work has many elements in common with the Mahāvastu. In the Longer Sukhāvatīvyūha Sūtra, Gautama Buddha begins by describing...

response, he grants a boon to the seductress. The story also appears in the Mahāvastu (Jones' translation pp. 139–147), but Ekaśr̥ṅga, as he is known here,...

transcendental nature. One of the few Mahāsāṃghika texts which survive, the Mahāvastu, is from this school. Another sub-sect which emerged from the Mahāsāṃghika...

texts like Lalitavistara, the Abiniskramana sutra, the Buddhacarita, the Mahavastu and the Mülasarvastivada Vinaya. One of the texts says,"A summer festival...

Nikayas Āgamas Gandhāran EBTs Prātimokṣa Abhidharma Jatakas Avadanas Mahāvastu Śālistamba Sūtra Tibetan EBTs in the Kangyur Early sangha Gautama Buddha...

non-canonical collection of 50 stories of the Buddha's past lives. The Mahāvastu is a Vinaya text of the Lokottaravāda school of Early Buddhism. Over half...

Buddhas) a hagiographical text of the Sinhalese Theravada school The Mahāvastu (Great Event), a text of the Mahāsāṅghika Lokottaravāda school, contains...

Avadānaśataka 244. 14. Roth (2021): p. 16. Jones, J. J. 1949–56. Thee Mahāvastu. 3 vols. London: Luzac and Company. pp. 22—24. Oldstone-Moore, Jennifer...

"reflects the nascent formation of the Mahāyāna Dharma teachings." The Mahāvastu (Sanskrit for "Great Event" or "Great Story") is the most well known of...

Eightfold Path. Another important source for Mahāsāṃghika sutras is the Mahāvastu ("Great Event"), which is a collection of various texts compiled into...

this sutra, there are many elements in common with the Lokottaravādin Mahāvastu. There are also images of Amitābha Buddha with the bodhisattvas Avalokiteśvara...

(Sanskrit: Amṛtodana), but the Mahāvastu states that his father was Śuklodana—both are brothers of Suddhodana. The Mahāvastu also mentions that Ānanda's...