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🎑 Lesson 1 - The Life of the Buddha
Suggested Reading
📖 The Life of the Buddha, According to the Pali Canon. Translated from the Pali, selected and arranged by Bhikkhu Ñāṇamoli (Seattle: Buddhist Publication Society, 1992)
📖 Niwano, Nikkyo. Shakyamuni Buddha: A Narrative Biography. Kosei Publishing Co., 1989.
📖 Saddhatissa, Hammalawa. Before He was the Buddha: The Life of Siddhartha. Seastone, 2000.
🎑 Lesson 2 - The Acts of the Buddha (Buddhacharita)
Suggested Reading
📖 The Buddhacharita (बुद्धचरितम् "Acts of the Buddha") - an epic poem in Sanskrit on the life of Gautama Buddha by Aśvaghoṣa, composed in the early second century CE.
The Dharmaguptaka biography of the Buddha is the most exhaustive of all classical biographies of the Buddha, and is entitled Abhiniṣkramaṇa Sūtra.