Avadana

• abstract: Avadāna (Sanskrit; Pali cognate: Apadāna)While avadāna (Sanskrit) and apadāna (Pali) are cognates, the former refers to a broad literature, including both canonical and non-canonical material from multiple Buddhist schools, while the latter refers explicitly to a late addition to Theravada Buddhism's Pali Canon's Khuddaka Nikaya. is the name given to a type of Buddhist literature correlating past lives' virtuous deeds to subsequent lives' events.

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