jataka tales
1Jataka tales — Bhutanese painted thangka of the Jatakas, 18th 19th Century, Phajoding Gonpa, Thimphu, Bhutan …
2Jataka Tales — Part of the canon of sacred Buddhist literature, stories of Gotama Buddha s previous incarnations, in human or animal form, numbering 550 and composed between the third century BCE and the fifth century CE. Their setting is commonly northern… …
3Jataka — /jah teuh keuh/, n. Buddhism. a collection of fables, many concerning former lives of the Buddha. * * * ▪ Buddhist literature (Pāli and Sanskrit:“Birth”), any of the extremely popular stories of former lives of the Buddha, which are preserved in …
4JÂTAKA — a Pâli collection of stories recounting 550 previous births of the Buddha, the earliest collection of popular tales, and the ultimate source of many of Æsop s fables and Western folk lore legends …
5jataka — In Buddhism, tales of the lives the Buddha …
6Sibi Jataka — is one of the Jataka tales detailing episodes of the various incarnations of Buddha. Each Jataka tale illustrates the Buddhist ideals of Dharma and sacrifice in various forms. Tradition states that these tales were narrated by Buddha himself… …
7Vessantara Jataka — mural, 19th century, Wat Suwannaram, Thonburi district, Bangkok, Thailand …
8ANIMAL TALES — ANIMAL TALES, stories in which animals are the principal characters, with the plot revolving around them and the setting mainly in the animal world. A man in an animal tale is an intruder in a strange world inhabited, ruled, and dominated by… …
9List of Amar Chitra Katha comics — This is a list of titles in the Indian Amar Chitra Katha comic book series. The numbers in brackets indicate which number in the series a particular title is. The most popular issues were republished as deluxe editions although some of the newest …
10South Asian arts — Literary, performing, and visual arts of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. Myths of the popular gods, Vishnu and Shiva, in the Puranas (ancient tales) and the Mahabharata and Ramayana epics, supply material for representational and… …
