{"id":524,"date":"2011-01-26T15:49:25","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T19:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=524"},"modified":"2013-08-28T20:08:23","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T00:08:23","slug":"analects-of-the-core-68","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2011\/01\/26\/analects-of-the-core-68\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Asvaghosa on dharma and leaving home"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When he had flown to the sky like a bird,<br \/>\nThat foremost of men was thrilled and amazed;<br \/>\nthen, perceiving that emblem of <em>dharma<\/em>,<br \/>\nhe set his mind on how he might leave home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.claysanskritlibrary.org\/Life_of_the_Buddha-v-48.html\"><em>The Life of Buddha<\/em> <\/a>by Asvaghosa, translated by Patrick Olivelle, <a href=\"http:\/\/bu.edu\/core\/cc102\">being studied<\/a> this spring semester for the first time in the Core. Alumni are welcome to attend the special Thursday event, when Prof. Eckel will be lecturing on this text.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When he had flown to the sky like a bird, That foremost of men was thrilled and amazed; then, perceiving that emblem of dharma, he set his mind on how he might leave home. -The Life of Buddha by Asvaghosa, translated by Patrick Olivelle, being studied this spring semester for the first time in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[48735,4698],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2978,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/2978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}