Barlam and Iosaphat : a Middle English life of Buddha
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Barlam and Iosaphat : a Middle English life of Buddha
（Early English Text Society original series, no. 290）
Published for the Early English Text Society by the Oxford University Press, 1986
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Middle English text, English introduction and notes
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Barlam and Iosaphat is a 15th-century Middle English prose version of the popular Latin vita of Barlaam et Josaphat, a Christianized account of an idolatrous Latin king who was led to the faith by his mentor, Barlam. In addition to the traditional accounts associated with Buddha's life--the prediction at birth, the four encounters, the temptation by women, the great renunciation--this Middle English text includes the ten apologues generally associated with the Western versions.
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