Barlaam and Josaphat

The German traveller von Le Coq has found at Turfan fragments of this legend in Turki which he published in 1912 in his Türkische Manichaica, which agree with the legend given by the Persian Ibn Bâbawaih of Qum, who died in 991. (S. d’Oldenbourg, Bul. Ac. I. des Sc., Pet., 1912, pp. 779–781; W. Radloff, Alttürk. Stud., VI., zu Barlaam und Joasaph). M. P. Alfaric (La Vie chrétienne du Bouddha, J. Asiatique, Sept.–Oct., 1917, pp. 269 seq.; Rev. de l’Hist. des Religions, Nov.–Dec., 1918, pp. 233 seq.) has studied this legend from a Manichæan point of view.

XV., p. 327.

See La “Vie des Saints Barlaam et Josaphat” et la légende du Bouddha, in Vol. I., pp. xxxxvii–lvi, of Contes populaires de Lorraine par Emmanuel Cosquin, Paris, Vieweg, n.d. [1886].

XVI., p. 335 n.