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Bhāṇaka (Pali: reciter) were
Buddhist monks who
specialized in the
memorization and
recitation of a
specific collection of
texts within the
Buddhist canon...
- by the Buddha" is
meant in this non-literal sense. The
existence of the
bhanaka tradition existing until later periods,
along with
other sources, shows...
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which consists mainly of the
Vesak hall compound,
Majjhima Nikaya cave (
Bhanaka cave),
Viharagal rock
inscription (6-7 Century), and
Bomaluwa (Bo tree...
- to the
patronage of
monks and nuns, some of them of high rank such as
bhāṇaka (reciter). Some
scholars have also
concluded that Jātaka
reciters were...
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erotic sentiments. From bhāṇas
there developed two
minor dramatic types –
bhāṇaka and bhāṇikā or bhāna and bhāni.
Early Nāṭyaśāstra
tradition describes eleven...
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theatrical traditions.
Bhattacharya has
directed ChitraPurvaranga,
Uparupaka Bhanaka,
Bhanika and Shudraka's
Padmapabhritakam Bhana as Padmanka-Gatha. For two...
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Early Buddhist texts are
believed to have been
transmitted by
lineages of
bhāṇaka,
monks who
specialized in
memorization and
recitation of
particular collections...
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lists of
canonical texts collected by the
Theravada Digha- and Majjhima-
bhanakas as well as the
Chinese translation of Buddhaghosa's commentaries. This...
- Khuddakanikaya. The Digha-
bhanakas (reciters)
excluded it, however, from the Sutta-pitaka
though conceding that the Majjhima-
bhanakas accepted it together...
