Samuel Beal 
Romantic Legend Sakya Buddha [PDF ebook] 
From the Chinese-Sanscrit

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. It would seem from a consideration of the title of the seventeenth chapter, Leaving the palace for a religious life, that originally the story of the Abhinishkra mana 2was simply that of Buddha’s flight from his palace to become an ascetic. Afterwards, the same title was applied to the complete legend (as in the present work), which includes his previous and subsequent. History.