Махаяна буддизміндегі Лалитавистара сутрасы

Sutra in Mahāyāna Buddhism

The Lalitavistara Sūtra is a Sanskrit Mahayana Buddhist sutra that tells the story of Gautama Buddha from the time of his descent from Tushita until his first sermon in the Deer Park at Sarnath near Varanasi. The term Lalitavistara has been translated "The Play in Full" or "Extensive Play," referring to the Mahayana view that the Buddha's last incarnation was a "display" or "performance" given for the benefit of the beings in this world.

The Borobudur reliefs contain a series of panels depicting the life of the Buddha as described in the Lalitavistara Sutra. In these reliefs, the story starts from the glorious descent of the Buddha from the Tushita heaven, and ends with his first sermon in the Deer Park. As an example of how widely the sutra was disseminated, the Lalitavistara Sutra was known to the Mantranaya (Vajrayana) practitioners of Borobudur, who had the text illustrated by stonemasons.

The Play in Full: Lalitavistara (2013), translated by the Dharmachakra Translation Committee, under the patronage and supervision of 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha. Translated from Tibetan into English and checked against the Sanskrit version. Voice of the Buddha: The Beauty of Compassion (1983), translated by Gwendolyn Bays, Dharma Publishing (two volume set). This translation has been made from French into English and then checked with the original in Tibetan and Sanskrit. Mitra, R. L. (1875) The Lalita Vistara. Delhi: Sri Satguru Publications, 1998.

Foucaux, Édouard. Le Lalitavistara : l’histoire traditionnelle de la vie du Bouddha Çakyamuni. Les Classiques du bouddhisme mahāyāna, Musée National des Arts Asiatiques Guimet, vol. 19. Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1892. Reprinted as Le Lalitavistara : l'histoire traditionnelle de la vie du Bouddha Çakyamuni, Les Deux Océans, 1988, 1992, 450 p.,

In the Lalitavistara, the Buddha explains to a mathematician named Arjuna the system of numerals in multiples of 100, starting from a koti (in later literature 107 but this is uncertain) to a tallakshana (1053 then).