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On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c20.66

On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India, 629–645 A.D. v2.c20.66

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v2.c20.66

The Devadatta-samādhi Cave of this passage is apparently the Devadatta Cave of Fa-hsien, the situations being similar.² It was probably in this cave that the ambitious Devadatta practised samādhi with the design of attaining supernormal powers, and thus becoming perfectly equal to his cousin, the Buddha.