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Myths and legends
==Myths and legends==
According The Greek legend of "Barlaam and Ioasaph", sometimes mistakenly attributed to the 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia, the story is one of the legends 7th century John of Damascus <ref>Proved by Zotenberg in "BuddhaNotices sur le livre de Barlaam et Josaphat" (Paris, 1886) and by Hammel in which the claim is Buddha was Saint Josaphat"Verhandl. des 7 interneat. It is said that this is a corruption of the original JoasaphOrientalisten Congresses", which is again from the middle Persian Budasif Semit. Section (Budsaif=BodhisattvaVienna, 1888). The Greek text of the legend, </ref> but actually written beginning of by the seventh century, probably by a Georgian monk of Euthymios in the Sabbas monastery near Jerusalem, was first 11th century <ref>First published by Boissonade in "Anecdota Graeca" (paris, 1832), IV, and is reproduced in Migne, PG, XCVI, among the works of St. John Damascene</ref>, was ultimately derived, through a variety of intermediate versions (Arabic and Georgian) from the life story of the Buddha. The legend cannotking-turned-monk Ioasaph (Georgian Iodasaph, howeverArabic Yūdhasaf or Būdhasaf) ultimately derives his name from the Sanskrit Bodhisattva, have been the name used in Buddhist accounts for Gautama before he became a work Buddha. Barlaam and Ioasaph were placed in the Greek Orthodox calendar of saints on [[August 26]], and in the great Damascene, West they were entered as was proved by Zotenberg in "Notices sur le livre de Barlaam et and Josaphat" (Paris, 1886) and by Hammel in the Roman Martyrology on the date of [[November 27]]. The story was translated into Hebrew in the Middle Ages as "Verhandl. des 7 interneat. Orientalisten CongressesBen-Hamelekh Vehanazir", Semit. Section (Vienna"The Prince and the Nazirite"), 1888)and is widely read by Jews to this day.
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