'God of Gods': An Iranian Buddhist Epithet and Its Traces in Early Chinese Buddhist Translations.
The Iranian flavour of the Chinese epithet of the Buddha, tianzhong tian 天中天, 'god among gods,' and its relationship with the Indo-Aryan parallel devātideva -, 'foremost god of gods,' have been repeatedly addressed. Past studies of the origin of the expressions sought to establish an ultimate connec...
| Publicado en: | Indo-Iranian Journal Vol. 67; no. 3; pp. 229 - 276 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2024
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