[INDOLOGY] Query

[Madhav Deshpande]

Hello Patrick,

The most recent publication regarding the Byzantine text Barlaam and
Ioasaph is the following book by my colleague Donald Lopez:

https://www.amazon.com/Barlaam-Josaphat-Christian-Penguin-Classics/dp/0143107011

Madhav

On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 9:08 AM, Matthew Kapstein via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> wrote:

> Dear Patrick,
>
> Despite the broad diffusion of some of Aśvaghoṣa's work,
> I do not think that there is evidence of a "smoking gun" proving that
> the Buddhacarita was transmitted into Middle Persian and thereby
> formed the basis for the very widespread Barlaam legends, which
> show up in almost everything from Amharic to Old Icelandic.
> And we cannot rule out the possibility that now lost summaries of the
> Buddha's life were also in circulation in Iranian Buddhist milieu -- the
> evidence of Buddhist textual traditions among pre-Islamic Iranian peoples
> is quite fragmentary indeed.
>
> best of luck,
>
> Matthew Kapstein
> Directeur d'études,
> Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes
>
> Numata Visiting Professor of Buddhist Studies,
> The University of Chicago
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