Jataka
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The venerable Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero, founder of the Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery in Sri Lanka, told me a story from the Jataka, an ancient book of poems about the Buddha's earlier lives.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2016
The Ajanta murals tell the Jataka stories of the lives of the Buddha in images of supreme elegance and grace.
From BBC ● Apr. 4, 2014
I realised that the greatest short story writer in South Asia was Buddha, where the stories of his previous lives were recounted as Jataka tales.
From The Guardian ● May 14, 2013
A "Guild of Jataka Translators," under Professor E. B. Cowell, professor of Sanskrit in the University of Cambridge, brought out the complete edition of the Jataka between 1895 and 1907.
From More Jataka Tales by E. C. Babbitt
The Foolish Timid Rabbit, a Jataka tale, might be prepared for telling by this same re-creative method of story-telling.
From A Study of Fairy Tales by Laura F. Kready
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