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Sugata Saurabha: An Epic Poem from Nepal on the Life of the Buddha |
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| Author |
Hrdaya, Chittadhar
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Lewis, Todd T.
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Tuladhar, Subarna Man
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| Date | 2008.03.30 |
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| Pages | 847 |
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| Publisher | Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies |
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| Publisher Url |
http://www.hup.harvard.edu
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| Location | Cambridge, MA, US [劍橋, 麻薩諸塞州, 美國] |
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| Series | Harvard Oriental Series |
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| Series No. | 67 |
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| Content type | 書籍=Book |
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| Language | 英文=English |
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| Note | Published by the Department of Sanskrit and Indian Studies and Distributed by the Harvard University Press |
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| Abstract | This poem belongs of the little-known Newari (Nepal Bhasha) language and literature, specifically to its even less known Buddhist version. It is one of the very rare cases that works in Newari language appear outside Nepal.
In nineteen long cantos, the "Sugata Saurabha" tells of the life of the Buddha, following the traditional accounts, but situates it in the strongly local context of Newar and Nepali Buddhism. It emulates the classical (Kavya) style of the long-standing Indian tradition, and has been inspired by the 2,000-year-old Sanskrit poem, the "Buddhacarita," Consequently, the poet inserts stanzas composed in traditional classical Sanskrit meter, though written in polished Newari.
The poem was composed by the greatest modern writer in Newari language, Chittadhar Hrdaya (1906- 1982), while he was imprisoned by the autocratic strongly pro-Hindu Rana regime that governed Nepal from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century.
The poem is the best-known work of the flowering of modern Newari literature that emerged after the restrictions of the Rana regime were lifted in 1950. |
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| Table of contents | 1. Introduction
I. Author, Text, Context
II. The Poet's Poetics and the Tradition of Writing the Buddha's Life
III. Sources and Themes in Sugata Saurabha
IV. Overview and Commentary on the Chapters
V. Translation and the Work of the Reader
App. 1. Sanskrit Metrical Forms Used in Sugata Saurabha
App. 2. Dates of Completion for the Chapters
2. English Translation
Ch. 1. Lumbini
Ch. 2. Family Tree
Ch. 3. Nativity
Ch. 4. Mother
Ch. 5. A Pleasant Childhood
Ch. 6. Education
Ch. 7. Marriage
Ch. 8. The Great Renunciation
Ch. 9. Yashodhara
Ch. 10. Attaining Enlightenment
Ch. 11. Basic Teachings
Ch. 12. The Blessed One in Kapilavastu
Ch. 13. Handsome Nanda
Ch. 14. The Great Lay Disciple
Ch. 15. Twelve Years of Itinerant Preaching
Ch. 16. A Dispute over Water
Ch. 17. The Monastery Built by Visakha
Ch. 18. Devadatta's Sacrilege
Ch. 19. Entry into Nirvana |
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| ISBN | 9780674027121 (hc) |
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| Hits | 356 |
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| Created date | 2008.06.06 |
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| Modified date | 2016.11.10 |
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