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AVADANA

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 51 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AVADANA  , the name given to a type of Buddhist

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romance literature represented by a large number of
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Sanskrit (Nepalese) collections, of which the
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chief are the Avadanasataka (
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Century of Legends), and the Divyavadana (The Heavenly
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Legend) . Though of later date than most of the canonical Buddhist books, they are held in veneration by the orthodox, and occupy much the same position with regard to
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Buddhism that the Puranas do towards Brahminism .

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