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
The Jataka accordingly contains the Buddhist explanation why the moon—i.e. the hare in the moon, i.e.
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
Fausböll, Five Jatakas; Copenhagen, 1861, pp. 35-8, text and translation of the Javasakuna Jataka.
From Indian Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs
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