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 tales, regarded as historic in the Third Century B. C., are the oldest collection of folk-lore extant.
From More Jataka Tales by Babbitt, E. C.
But one night she had said instead, "Now let me tell you a Jataka story!"
From Little Sky-High The Surprising Doings of Washee-Washee-Wang by Butterworth, Hezekiah
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