[INDOLOGY] Query

[Tieken, H.J.H.]

Dear Patrick,
A belated and probably superfluous reaction. Yesterday I happened to read Nick Allen, "The Hanging Man and Indo-European Mythology", in Parallels and Comparisons. Proceedings of the Fourth Dubrovnik Intern. Conf. on the Skt Epics and Puranas, Zagreb 2009, pp. 89ff), and then I remembered your request. On p. 101 Allen writes: The situation is quite different from the parable of Barlam and Iosaphat, where (say) the Middle English version and Chavanne's Chinese version are immediately recognisable as being the same story as Vidura's". Allen's article, which is about Vidura's story on a man hanging face down above a pit,, opens with a quotation from Barlam and Iosapath.
Herman

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Van: INDOLOGY [indology-bounces at list.indology.info] namens Anna Martin via INDOLOGY [indology at list.indology.info]
Verzonden: donderdag 2 maart 2017 15:41
Aan: indology at list.indology.info
Onderwerp: Re: [INDOLOGY] Query

Several versions of the legend exist in New Persian also, named
"Belawhar va Būdāsaf" or "Blawhar wa Būzasf", see e.g. the entry in the
Encyclopaedia Iranica (which does not include later versions in New
Persian, however)

http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/barlaam-and-iosaph-persian-belawhar-o-budasaf-a-greek-christian-or-christianized-novel-of-buddhist-origins-which-througho

Maybe the entry by D. M. Lang in the Encyclopaedia of Islam could also
be helpful:

Lang, D.M., “Bilawhar Wa-Yūdāsaf”, in: Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second
Edition, Edited by: P. Bearman, Th. Bianquis, C.E. Bosworth, E. van
Donzel, W.P. Heinrichs.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_islam_COM_0120

The Blawhar wa Būzasf by ´Alī Ibn Muḥammad Niẓām Tabrīzī (14th century)
was printed by Mirath-i Maktub, Tehran 2002.


Best,
Anna Martin



Am 01.03.2017 um 14:37 schrieb Olivelle, J P via INDOLOGY:
> A student who is not on the list has posed this question, and I do not
> have clear answers. If any of you has some information, he would be very
> grateful. Here is the query:
>
>     I am currently writing a senior thesis under Sheldon Pollock on the
>     Byzantine text /Barlaam and Iōasaph/ and its Sanskrit analogues,
>     specifically the /Buddhacarita/. It is important to my argument to
>     demonstrate that the /Buddhacarita /was likely to have influenced a
>     lost version of the Buddha legend which made its way into Arabic
>     through a Middle Persian intermediary in the eighth century. My best
>     evidence for the /Buddhacarita/'s widespread popularity so far are
>     the fragments of Aśvaghoṣa at Turfan and a reference to Aśvaghoṣa in
>     Ratnaśrījñāna's commentary on Daṇḍin's /Kāvyalakṣaṇa./ My question
>     for you is whether you are aware of any textual references to
>     the /Buddhacarita/ that might bolster this argument.
>
>
> With thanks,
>
>
> Patrick
>
>
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