Mahāvastu
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Mahāvastu is an important early Buddhist text of the Lokottaravāda school, known for its extensive collection of legends, Jātaka tales, and narratives about the Buddha’s past lives and career.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Ashokavadana | 1 |
| Mahāvastu canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T21201038 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mahāvastu Context triple: [Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, hasNotableCorpus, Mahāvastu]
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A.
Kalpa Sutra
The Kalpa Sutra is a foundational Jain scripture, traditionally recited during the Paryushana festival, that details the lives of the Tirthankaras—especially Mahavira—as well as monastic rules and rituals.
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B.
Vajrasekhara Sutra
The Vajrasekhara Sutra is a key esoteric Buddhist tantra that, together with the Mahavairocana Sutra, forms a primary doctrinal foundation for Shingon Buddhism’s ritual and cosmological system.
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C.
Vaisesika Sutra
The Vaisesika Sutra is an ancient Indian philosophical text that systematizes the Vaisheshika school’s atomistic and realist metaphysics, detailing categories of reality such as substance, quality, and motion.
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D.
Tripitaka
Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
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E.
Avatamsaka Sutra
The Avatamsaka Sutra is a monumental Mahayana Buddhist scripture renowned for its vast, visionary depiction of the interpenetrating cosmos and the path of the bodhisattva.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Mahāvastu Target entity description: Mahāvastu is an important early Buddhist text of the Lokottaravāda school, known for its extensive collection of legends, Jātaka tales, and narratives about the Buddha’s past lives and career.
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A.
Kalpa Sutra
The Kalpa Sutra is a foundational Jain scripture, traditionally recited during the Paryushana festival, that details the lives of the Tirthankaras—especially Mahavira—as well as monastic rules and rituals.
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B.
Vajrasekhara Sutra
The Vajrasekhara Sutra is a key esoteric Buddhist tantra that, together with the Mahavairocana Sutra, forms a primary doctrinal foundation for Shingon Buddhism’s ritual and cosmological system.
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C.
Vaisesika Sutra
The Vaisesika Sutra is an ancient Indian philosophical text that systematizes the Vaisheshika school’s atomistic and realist metaphysics, detailing categories of reality such as substance, quality, and motion.
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D.
Tripitaka
Tripitaka is the traditional Buddhist canon, comprising three collections of teachings that form the foundational scriptures of the Buddhist religion.
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E.
Avatamsaka Sutra
The Avatamsaka Sutra is a monumental Mahayana Buddhist scripture renowned for its vast, visionary depiction of the interpenetrating cosmos and the path of the bodhisattva.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Subhadrangi (traditional identification as Ashoka’s mother)
linked to: Mahāvastu