Author: Gui de Cambrai
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143107011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A new translation of the most popular Christian tale of the Middle Ages, which springs from the story of the Buddha. When his astrologers foretell that his son Josaphat will convert to Christianity, the pagan King Avenir confines him to a palace, allowing him to know only the pleasures of the world, and to see no illness, death, or poverty. Despite the king's precautions, the hermit Barlaam comes to Josaphat and begins to teach the prince Christian beliefs through parables. Josaphat converts to Christianity, angering his father, who tries to win his son back to his religion before he, too, converts. After his father's death, Josaphat renounces the world and lives as a hermit in the wilderness with his teacher Barlaam. Long attributed to the eighth-century monk and scholar, St. John of Damascus, Barlaam and Josaphat was translated into numerous languages around the world. Philologists eventually traced the name Josaphat as a derivation from the Sanskrit bodhisattva, the Buddhist term for the future Buddha, highlighting this text as essential source reading for connections between several of the world’s most popular religions. The first version to appear in modern English, Peggy McCracken’s highly readable translation reintroduces a classic tale and makes it accessible once again. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Barlaam and Josaphat
Author: Gui de Cambrai
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143107011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A new translation of the most popular Christian tale of the Middle Ages, which springs from the story of the Buddha. When his astrologers foretell that his son Josaphat will convert to Christianity, the pagan King Avenir confines him to a palace, allowing him to know only the pleasures of the world, and to see no illness, death, or poverty. Despite the king's precautions, the hermit Barlaam comes to Josaphat and begins to teach the prince Christian beliefs through parables. Josaphat converts to Christianity, angering his father, who tries to win his son back to his religion before he, too, converts. After his father's death, Josaphat renounces the world and lives as a hermit in the wilderness with his teacher Barlaam. Long attributed to the eighth-century monk and scholar, St. John of Damascus, Barlaam and Josaphat was translated into numerous languages around the world. Philologists eventually traced the name Josaphat as a derivation from the Sanskrit bodhisattva, the Buddhist term for the future Buddha, highlighting this text as essential source reading for connections between several of the world’s most popular religions. The first version to appear in modern English, Peggy McCracken’s highly readable translation reintroduces a classic tale and makes it accessible once again. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143107011
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A new translation of the most popular Christian tale of the Middle Ages, which springs from the story of the Buddha. When his astrologers foretell that his son Josaphat will convert to Christianity, the pagan King Avenir confines him to a palace, allowing him to know only the pleasures of the world, and to see no illness, death, or poverty. Despite the king's precautions, the hermit Barlaam comes to Josaphat and begins to teach the prince Christian beliefs through parables. Josaphat converts to Christianity, angering his father, who tries to win his son back to his religion before he, too, converts. After his father's death, Josaphat renounces the world and lives as a hermit in the wilderness with his teacher Barlaam. Long attributed to the eighth-century monk and scholar, St. John of Damascus, Barlaam and Josaphat was translated into numerous languages around the world. Philologists eventually traced the name Josaphat as a derivation from the Sanskrit bodhisattva, the Buddhist term for the future Buddha, highlighting this text as essential source reading for connections between several of the world’s most popular religions. The first version to appear in modern English, Peggy McCracken’s highly readable translation reintroduces a classic tale and makes it accessible once again. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Balavariani
Author: David Marshall Lang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000514617
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Originally published in 1966, the full Georgian text of the oldest version of this Christian version of this matchless classic of Oriental wisdom literature is made accessible to a wider readership in an English translation. Based on a unique manuscript preserved in the Greek Patriarchate at Jerusalem, this rendering should appeal to those interested in comparative religion, Buddhism, medieval Christianity, the history of monasticism and in the literature of the Georgians and other ancient nations of the former Soviet Union.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000514617
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Originally published in 1966, the full Georgian text of the oldest version of this Christian version of this matchless classic of Oriental wisdom literature is made accessible to a wider readership in an English translation. Based on a unique manuscript preserved in the Greek Patriarchate at Jerusalem, this rendering should appeal to those interested in comparative religion, Buddhism, medieval Christianity, the history of monasticism and in the literature of the Georgians and other ancient nations of the former Soviet Union.
Reading Medieval Latin with the Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat
Author: Donka Markus
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053841
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
"This intermediate Latin reader is designed to strengthen students' reading skills through an accessible and entertaining text. ... The text included in this reader is Jacobus de Voragine's abridged Latin version of the legend of Saints Barlaam and Josaphat. The Latin of Jacobus, a 13th-century compiler, offers excellent opportunities for the systematic learning of the peculiarities of Late and Medieval Latin."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472053841
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 165
Book Description
"This intermediate Latin reader is designed to strengthen students' reading skills through an accessible and entertaining text. ... The text included in this reader is Jacobus de Voragine's abridged Latin version of the legend of Saints Barlaam and Josaphat. The Latin of Jacobus, a 13th-century compiler, offers excellent opportunities for the systematic learning of the peculiarities of Late and Medieval Latin."--Provided by publisher.
Barlaam and Ioasaph
Author: Saint John (of Damascus)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The Greek version of the legend, from which European versions collectively descend, is attributed by some to Saint John of Damascus.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
The Greek version of the legend, from which European versions collectively descend, is attributed by some to Saint John of Damascus.
Barlaam and Josaphat. English Lives of Buddha. Ed. ... by Joseph Jacobs
In Search of the Christian Buddha: How an Asian Sage Became a Medieval Saint
Author: Donald S. Lopez Jr.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393089150
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Looks at the medieval tale of St. Josaphat, a prince who gave up everything to follow Jesus, and traces its origins in the story of the Buddha, looking at the various versions of the story, their similarities, and their differences.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393089150
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Looks at the medieval tale of St. Josaphat, a prince who gave up everything to follow Jesus, and traces its origins in the story of the Buddha, looking at the various versions of the story, their similarities, and their differences.
BARLAAM AND JOSAPHAT
Author: JOSEPH. JACOBS
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033724774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033724774
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Barlaam and Josaphat
The Wisdom of Balahvar
Author: David Marshall Lang
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032168814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1957 and forming a companion volume to The Balavariani, this volume provides valuable research into the biography of Gautama Buddha and its influence on medieval Christian thought. This work, the romance of Barlaam and Josaphat, was included by Caxton in The Golden Legend and inspired the episode of the Caskets in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice; its heroes were venerated as Saints. Over a century ago, however, the legend was finally identified as an adaptation of episodes from the life and ministry of the Buddha. The first part of the book is devoted to tracing the development and migration of the Barlaam and Josaphat legend from its original Buddhist environment to the West. The second part is a translation of the Georgian text - the first published in any Western European language. The volume therefore gives one of the oldest Near Eastern versions of the story.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032168814
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Originally published in 1957 and forming a companion volume to The Balavariani, this volume provides valuable research into the biography of Gautama Buddha and its influence on medieval Christian thought. This work, the romance of Barlaam and Josaphat, was included by Caxton in The Golden Legend and inspired the episode of the Caskets in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice; its heroes were venerated as Saints. Over a century ago, however, the legend was finally identified as an adaptation of episodes from the life and ministry of the Buddha. The first part of the book is devoted to tracing the development and migration of the Barlaam and Josaphat legend from its original Buddhist environment to the West. The second part is a translation of the Georgian text - the first published in any Western European language. The volume therefore gives one of the oldest Near Eastern versions of the story.
The Exempla Or Illustrative Stories from the Sermones Vulgares of Jacques de Vitry
Author: Jacques (de Vitry)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exempla
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exempla
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description