BUDDHIST LITERATURE [PART -2]: UPSC Daily Important Topic | 11 April 2022
∆BUDDHIST LITERATURE [PART -2]
Non-canonical Buddhist literature.
✓ Non-canonical Buddhist literature in Pali includes the Milindapanha which consists of a dialogue on various philosophical issues between king Milinda— the Indo-Greek Menander and the monk Nagasena.
✓The Nettigandha or Nettipakarana belongs to the same period and gives a connected account of the teaching of the Buddha.
✓Commentaries on the Tipitaka include a 5th century work by Buddhaghosha.
✓The first connected life story of the Buddha occurs in the Nidanakatha (1st century).
✓The Pali or Sri Lankan chronicles—the Dipavamsa (4th–5th centuries) and the Mahavamsa (5th century)—contain a historical-cum-mythical account of the Buddha’s life, the Buddhist councils, the Maurya emperor Ashoka, the kings of Sri Lanka, and the arrival of Buddhism on that island.
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