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"The Jātaka tales are a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births of Gautama Buddha in both human and animal form. The future Buddha may appear as a king, an outcast, a god, an elephant—but, in whatever form, he exhibits some virtue that the tale thereby inculcates.[1] Often, Jātaka tales include an extensive cast of characters who interact and get into various kinds of trouble - whereupon the Buddha character intervenes to resolve all the problems and bring about a happy ending.
In Theravada Buddhism, the Jātakas are a textual division of the Pāli Canon, included in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka. The term Jātaka may also refer to a traditional commentary on this book".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jataka_tales
Source/publisher:
Pali Canon and elsewhere in the Buddhist texts
Date of Publication:
1970-01-01
Date of entry:
2019-03-09
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- Individual Documents
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Geographic coverage:
- Global
Language:
English
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pdf pdf
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8.43 MB 19.66 MB
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book
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- OK