in whatever form, he exhibits some virtue that the tale thereby inculcates. Often, Jātaka tales include an extensive cast of characters who interact...

concentrate on those Jataka tales which show previous lives of the Buddha as a king, rather than as deer or elephant or another Jataka animal. The scenes...

Dasaratha Jataka (Pali: Dasaratha Jātaka) is a Jataka tale found in Buddhist literature about a previous life of the Gautama Buddha. It is found as 461th...

Bhavishya Purana also mentions Asmaka as the son of Sudasa. Source: Jataka tales, narrates a story of King Assaka of Potali, who is deeply grieved by...

Jataka tales are a voluminous body of literature concerning the stories of previous births of Gautama Buddha. Following is the list of Jataka tales mentioned...

The Mahakapi Jataka is one of the Jataka tales or stories of the former lives of the Buddha, when he was still a Bodhisattva, as a king of the monkeys...

pleasures. They are featured in a number of Buddhist texts, including the Jataka tales and Lotus Sutra. In Southeast Asian Buddhist mythology, kinnaris, the...

Mahathupa in Sri Lanka all 550 Jataka tales were represented inside of the reliquary chamber. Reliquaries often depict the Jataka tales. In Southeast Asia, the...

The Mahānipāta Jātaka, sometimes translated as the Ten Great Birth Stories of the Buddha, are a set of stories from the Jātaka tales (in the Khuddaka...

Vimalasuri. Rama and Sita legend is mentioned in the Jataka tales of Buddhism, as Dasaratha-Jataka (Tale no. 461), but with slightly different spellings such...

of the Buddha, collections of stories about his past lives known as Jataka tales, and additional discourses, i.e., the Mahayana sutras. Buddhism spread...

(fire sacrifice) of King Dasharatha. His story also occurs in the Buddhist Jatakas, where he is mentioned as the son of Bodhisatta and was tried to be seduced...

Kathasaritsagara, Brihatkatha and Jataka tales were performed in folk theatres since ancient period. Jataka tales has become part of Southeast and East...

the Buddha as an avatar, Buddhism legends too adopted Krishna in their Jataka tales, claiming Krishna (Vishnu avatar) to be a character whom Buddha met and...

at least 1500 BCE with early reference to the islands in the Buddhist Jataka tales from the 3rd century BCE and the Tamil Sangam literature Patiṟṟuppattu...

December 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2023. Jataka Tales: The Otters and The Wolf https://mocomi.com/jataka-tales-the-otters-and-the-wolf/ Archived 30 September...

The Vessantara Jātaka is one of the most popular jātakas of Theravada Buddhism. The Vessantara Jātaka tells the story of one of Gautama Buddha's past lives...

(Kǎlābǔ wáng). King Kalābu appears in the Kṣāntivādi Jātaka (Sanskrit; Pali: Khantivādī Jātaka). The Sanskrit word kṣānti (Pali: khanti) means "tolerance"...

Krishna occurs in the Jataka tales in Buddhism. The Vidhurapandita Jataka mentions Madhura (Sanskrit: Mathura), the Ghata Jataka mentions Kamsa, Devagabbha...

prose, sometimes derived from Jataka tales Syntipas (c. 100 BCE), Indian philosopher, reputed author of a collection of tales known in Europe as The Story...

Gandabherunda, who in turn defeated Sharabha. In Buddhism, Sharabha appears in Jataka Tales as an earlier birth of the Buddha. It also appears in Tibetan Buddhist...

The Dog and the Bone. An Eastern analogue is found in the Suvannahamsa Jataka, which appears in the fourth section of the Buddhist book of monastic discipline...

(Wylie: mthun pa spun bzhi or Wylie: mthun pa rnam bzhi) is one of the Jātaka tales, part of Buddhist mythology, and is often the subject in works of Bhutanese...

magazines and French radio. In 1939, her book Twenty Jataka Tales, inspired by the Jataka tales of Buddhist tradition, was published in London by George...

the medicine in vain" in his poem, "The Old Dust". In the Buddhist Jataka tales, Tale 316 relates that a monkey, an otter, a jackal, and a rabbit resolved...

Southeast Asian folktale, and also an apocryphal Jātaka Tale, the Rathasena Jātaka of the Paññāsa Jātaka collection. It is one of the stories of the previous...

teachers of Buddhist doctrine in pre-Buddhist times in several of the Jataka tales. In the fourth-century Mahayana abhidharma work, the Abhidharma-samuccaya...

language, and mighty prowess. They were also mentioned in the Buddhist Jataka tales. Megasthenes reported in his Indica (c. 310 BCE) that the Andhras, living...

Gutenberg". Gutenberg.org. 2008-05-06. Retrieved 2012-08-22. Tales 188–189, The Jataka, tr. by W.H.D. Rouse, Cambridge 1895, Vol. II pp. 75–76; an online...

around thirty Jataka tales. Thus, it is possible that the bodhisattva ideal was popularized through the telling of Jatakas. Jataka tales contain numerous...