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Taking a comparative approach which considers characters that are shared across the narrative traditions of early Indian religions (Brahmanical Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism) Shared Characters in Jain, Buddhist and Hindu Narrative explores key religious and social ideals, as well as points of contact, dialogue and contention between different worldviews. The book focuses on three types of character - gods, heroes and kings - that are of particular importance to early South Asian narrative traditions because of their relevance to the concerns of the day, such as the role of deities, the qualities of a true hero or good ruler and the tension between worldly responsibilities and the pursuit of liberation. Characters (incuding character roles and lineages of characters) that are shared between traditions reveal both a common narrative heritage and important differences in worldview and ideology that are developed in interaction with other worldviews and ideologies of the day. As such, this study sheds light on an important period of Indian religious history, and will be essential reading for scholars and postgraduate students working on early South Asian religious or narrative traditions (Jain, Buddhist and Hindu) as well as being of interest more widely in the fields of Religious Studies, Classical Indology, Asian Studies and Literary Studies.

Gods, Indic --- Heroes - Religious aspects --- Heroes - India --- Jainism - India --- Buddhism - India --- Brahmanism - India --- India - Religion - To 1200 --- India - Kings and rulers - Religious aspects --- Heroes --- Jainism --- Buddhism --- Brahmanism --- India --- Gods, Indic. --- Religious aspects. --- Religion --- Kings and rulers

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"Many Buddhas, One Buddha introduces a significant section of the important early Indian Buddhist text known as the Avadānaśataka, or "One Hundred Stories", and explores some of its perspectives on buddhahood. This text, composed in Sanskrit and dating to perhaps the third to fifth centuries of the Common Era, is affiliated with the Sarvāstivāda or Mūlasarvāstivāda, and thus provides important evidence of the ideas and literatures of lost non-Mahāyāna schools of Indian Buddhism. The text is a rich literary composition, in mixed prose and verse, and includes some elaborate devotional passages that illuminate early Indian perspectives on the Buddha and on the role of avad♯¹na texts. The book introduces the first four chapters of the Avadānaśataka through key themes of these stories, such as predictions and vows, preparations for buddhahood, the relationship between Śākyamuni and other buddhas, and the relationship between full buddhahood and pratyekabuddhahood. The study of these stories closes with an argument about the structural design of the text, and what this tells us about attitudes towards different forms of awakening. The second part of the book then presents a full English translation of stories 1-40"--

Buddhas. --- Buddhism --- Buddhism. --- Buddhist literature, Sanskrit --- Buddhist literature, Sanskrit. --- Enlightenment (Buddhism). --- History --- Gautama Buddha. --- Avadāna-Śataka. --- Tripiṭaka. --- Criticism, Textual. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- India.

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Manuscripts, Thai. --- Jataka stories. --- Buddhist illumination of books and manuscripts. --- 091 <41 OXFORD> --- 091.31 "17" --- 091 <593> --- 091:78 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--OXFORD --- Verluchte handschriften--18e eeuw. Periode 1700-1799 --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Thailand --- Handschriften i.v.m. muziek --- Gautama Buddha. --- Tipitaka.--Suttapitaka.--Khuddakanikaya.--Jataka--Criticism interpretation etc. --- Buddhism--Thailand. --- 091:78 Handschriften i.v.m. muziek --- 091 <593> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Thailand --- 091 <41 OXFORD> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland--OXFORD