Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c42.s2.t2.1
Early Monastic Buddhism v2.c42.s2.t2.1
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v2.c42.s2.t2.1
In the Mahāvastu and the Lalitavistara Buddha is deified but there are no directions for making images of Buddha. The earliest literary evidence relating to image-making is yielded by the Divyāvadāna, in which Aśoka is found to be consulting Piṇḍola Bharadvāja regarding the features (mahāpuruṣa-