Bodhi Vamsa

Bodhi Vamsa

The "Bodhi-Vamsa", or Mahabodhi-Vamsa, is a prose poem in elaborate Sanskritized Pali, composed by Upatissa in the reign of Mahinda IV of Ceylon (Sri Lanka) about A.D. 980.

It is an adaptation of a previously existing work in Sinhalese on the same subject, and describes the bringing of a branch or cutting of the celebrated Bo or Bodhi tree (i.e. Wisdom Tree, under which the Buddha had attained wisdom) to Sri Lanka in the 3rd century BCE. The "Bodhi Vamsa" quotes verses from the "Mahavamsa", but draws a great deal of its material from other sources; and it has occasionally preserved details of the older tradition not found in any other sources known.

ee also

*Mahavamsa
*Buddhist texts


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