Barlam and Iosaphat : a Middle English life of Buddha

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Barlam and Iosaphat : a Middle English life of Buddha

edited from ms Peterhouse 257 by John C. Hirsh

(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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Barlaam and Joasaph

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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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