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‘Barlaam and Josaphat’

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‘Barlaam and Josaphat’

Christian religious romance popular in the Middle Ages. The story has affinities with the life of Buddha; it also contains an abbreviated version of the Apology of the 2nd-century Greek Christian Aristides, and the story of the caskets used by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice.

The Greek version has been attributed to St John of Damascus (c. 676–c. 754), but probably belongs to the previous century. Modern writers have traced an original Sanskrit source from which the Christian version is derived through Manichean channels.



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