Jataka

[jah-tuh-kuh]

noun

Buddhism.

1. a collection of fables, many concerning former lives of the Buddha.

Example Sentences

He cited a story from the “Jataka Tales,” a body of South Asian literature concerning the prior incarnations of the Buddha in human and animal form.

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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.

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Marionettes were used in the royal courts to dramatize Buddhist jataka tales, about the lives of Buddha.

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The Ajanta murals tell the Jataka stories of the lives of the Buddha in images of supreme elegance and grace.

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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.

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