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Biography in the Buddhist Traditions ~: LINDA COVILL ULRIKE ROESLER SARAH SHAW Lives Lived, Lives Imagined '-.....__ __, . Biography in the Buddhist Traditions ~l_y LINDA COVILL ULRIKE ROESLER SARAH SHAW Wisdom Publications · Boston ~~~~ The Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies Wisdom Publications I99 Elm Street Somerville MA o:z.I44 USA www.wisdompubs.org © :z.oio Ulrike Roesler All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photography, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system or technologies now known or later developed, without permission in writing from the publisher. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lives lived, lives imagined : biography in the Buddhist traditions I edited by Linda Covill, Ulrike Roesler, Sarah Shaw. p.cm. ISBN o-86I7I-578-o (pbk.: alk. paper) I. Buddhist literature-History and criticism. :z.. Religious biography-History and crit- icism. 3· Buddhists-Biography. I. Covill, Linda, I96:z.- II. Roesler, Ulrike. III. Shaw, Sarah, Dr. BQio:z.o.L58 :z.oio 2.94·309:z.-dc:z.:z. :Z.OIOO:Z.452.6 I4 I3 12. II IO 5 4 3 :Z. I Cover design by Allison Nealon. Interior design by LC. Set in Diacritical Garamond Pro II/14·9• Wisdom Publications' books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Libraty Resources. Printed in the United States of America. ~ \~This book was produced with environmental mindfulness. We have elected to print this title on 30% PCW recycled paper. As a result, we have saved the following resources: I8 trees, 6 million BTUs of energy, I,7:z.6lbs. of greenhouse gases, 8,3I3 gallons of water, and 505lbs. of solid waste. For more information, please visit our website, www.wisdom- pubs.org. This paper is also FSC certified. For more information, please visit www.fscus. org. Publisher's Acknowledgment C")';E PUBLISHER gratefully acknowledges the generous help oft he Her- / ~hey Family Foundation in sponsoring the publication of this book. Contents Preface IX Introduction Ulrike Roesler I. THE BUDDHA: A LIFE LIVED, IMAGINED, AND LIVING STILL And That Was I: How the Buddha Himself Creates a Path between Biography and Autobiography Sarah Shaw I s Chips from a Biographical Workshop-Early Chinese Biographies of the Buddha: The Late Birth ofRahula and Yasodhara's Extended Pregnancy MaxDeeg 49 Truth Under the Guise of Poetry: Asvagho~a's "Life of the Buddha" Roland Steiner 89 Handsome Is as Handsome Does: Asvagho~a's Story of the Buddha's Younger Brother Linda Covill I 2 3 II. THERAVADA BIOGRAPHIES IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Seeing Myself as Another Person: The Autobiography of a Burmese Monastic Thinker in the Twentieth Century Ven. Khammai Dhammasami I 3 9 VIII : LIVES LIVED, LIVES IMAGINED Learning, Living, Spreading the Dharma-A PostmodernJourney from Uku Baha, Lalitpur, to Hsi Lai Monastery, Hacienda Heights, California: How Ganesh Kumari Shakya Became Bhikkhuni Dhammawati Sarah LeVine 161 Ill. TIBET RE-NARRATED: BIOGRAPHIES OF TIBETAN MASTERS The Evolution of the Biographies ofMilarepa and Rechungpa Peter Alan Roberts I 8 I Tibetan Sources on the Life of Serdog PaQ.chen Shakya Chogden (I428-I 507) Volker Caumanns 20 s Narratives of Reincarnation, Politics of Power, and the Emergence of a Scholar: The Very Early Years ofMikyo Dorje Jim Rheingans 24 I The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Circumscription of Saintly Evil in Tibetan Biography Charles Ramble 299 Spellings of Tibetan Names 3 2 s Contributors 3 3 3
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