Jataka
Americannoun
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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
Joseph Jacobs claims to have found the original of the "Tar Baby" in the Jataka Tales.
From A Study of Fairy Tales by Kready, Laura F.
I am, however, not so much concerned with the original explanation of the Jataka as to trace its travels across the continents of Asia, Africa, and America.
From Indian Fairy Tales by Jacobs, Joseph
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