A Comparative Study of Texts describing Sakyamuni Buddha's Life Story and Iconographic Images in India

本研究的目的是探讨阿斯瓦哥萨的《释迦牟尼》和其他类似的描述佛陀生平故事的文本的特点和形成。为了做到这一点，我们比较了这些文本的排列以及印度西北部的雕塑（被认为是《阿比卡里塔》的创作地），发现它们在结构上有相似之处。因此，释迦牟尼的这些传记有可能受到该地区对他的看法的影响。

The purpose of this study is to examine the characteristics and formation of Asvaghosa's Buddhacarita and other similar texts that temporally describe the life story of the Buddha. To do so, we compared the arrangement of these texts as well as sculptures from Northwest India (held to be where Buddhacarita was created), and found that they have structural similarities. Therefore, there is the possibility that such biographies of Sakyamuni were influenced by views of him particular to the area.