He has much the same literary history as Avalokita, not being mentioned in the Pali Canon nor in the earlier Sanskrit works such as the Lalita-vistara and Divyâvadâna.
But the Lalita-vistara does not mention this theory.
We learn from the Lalita-vistara that various forms of bodily torture, self-maceration, and austerity were common in Gautama's time.
Footnote 317: The Lalita Vistara says Alâra lived at Vesâlî and Uddaka in Magadha.
Footnote 395: The best known of the later biographies of the Buddha, such as the Lalita Vistara and the Buddha-carita of Aśvaghosha stop short after the Enlightenment.
But like the Lalita vistara and other Indian lives on which it is modelled it stops short at the enlightenment.
This may be because the Lalita Vistara treats only of his early career, but still the omission is noteworthy.
But he points out that the version of the Lalita Vistara followed by the artist is not quite the same as the one that we possess.
The Lalita Vistara begins with a description of Buddha's ante-natal life in heaven.
Many others followed; but as the Lalita-Vistara breaks off at Buddha's arrival at Benares, we have no further consecutive account of the rapid progress of his doctrine.
A monument,' remarks the author of the Lalita-Vistara (p.
The difference between the wild stories of the Lalita Vistara and the sober narratives of the Gospels is quite apparent.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vistara" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
