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Lalitavistara – 37 and Bloch Zeitschift der Deutschen Morgenlandischen Gesellschaft 62, p. 370 ff. No Image in Primitive Buddhism While the ancient Buddhistic art in the time of Aśoka, in the reliefs of Bharhut, Sañchi, etc., knows of no image of the Buddha but only a symbol (e.g., the wheel) for the person of the Founder of the religion, a representation of the Buddha is the principal object of the Gandhāra art. Can it not be connected with this that in the intervening centuries the Buddha became an object of Bhakti and the adoration of the Buddha was pushed into the central point of his religion? Thus there is [27] concurrent testimony that the age of the Gandhāra art, the floruit of which falls in the second century after Christ, was also the period of Mahāyāna texts which treat of the Buddha legend. “On the grounds of style derived in the first instance from Greco- Roman art the period of the development can only be the period from the birth of Christ to the fourth century.” Grunwendel Buddhist Art in India, p. 81. According to Foucher L’art Greco-bouddhique du Gandhāra, part 1. p.40 ff. the flourishing period of the Gandhāra art coincides with the second half of the second century A.D. General Estimate of Lalitavistara It is, therefore, but natural that we should have preserved in the Lalitavistara both the very old tradition, and accounts younger by centuries, of the legend of the Buddha. An important source of old Buddhism it is only there, where it coincides with the Pāḷi texts and other Sanskrit texts like the Mahāvastu. But it is erroneous to regard
Lalitavistara – 38 the Lalitavistara in its entirety as a good old source for our knowledge of Buddhism as does Senart in his ingenious and unsuccessful Essai sur la legende du Buddha, (p. 31 f., 456 f.). Nor does the Lalitavistara give us a clue “to popular Buddhism” of older times as is claimed by Vallée-Poussin. It is rather a key to the development of the Buddha legend in its earliest beginnings, in which only the principal events of the life of the great founder of the religion have been adorned with miracles, down to the final apotheosis of the Master in which from start to finish his career appears more like that of a god, above all the other gods. But from the standpoint of literary history the Lalitavistara is one of the most important works in Buddhist literature. It is not indeed a Buddha epic proper, but it embodies all the germs of one. It was from the ballads and episodes which have been preserved in the oldest elements of the Lalitavistara, if probably not from the Lalitavistara itself, that the greatest poet of Buddhism, Aśvaghoṣa, created his magnificent epic called Buddhacarita or Life of the Buddha. [28]
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