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In this week\\u2019s FBA Podcast, \\u201cAshvaghosha: India\\u2019s Great Buddhist Poet\\u201d Dhivan introduces Ashvaghosha, the Buddhist poet of 2nd c. AD India. Two of his works survive: a poetic re-telling of the Buddha\\u2019s life-story (\\u2018The Buddhacarita\\u2019 or \\u2018Acts of the Buddha\\u2019), and \\u2018Handsome Nanda\\u2019, about the conversion of the Buddha\\u2019s sensuous and wife-loving cousin to the Dharma.

Here Dhivan shares some of his own translations of Ashvaghosha from Sanskrit and Pali sources, in this accessible and humorous introduction to some fine Buddhist poetry.

This talk given at Cambridge Buddhist Centre, 20 August 2009, on the occasion of the launch of Urthona magazine, issue 26.