The Jataka : or, Stories of the Buddha's former births

Abstract

Jataka stories or birth-legends were widely known in the third century B.C. Each Story, narrated by the Buddha, opens with a preface relating the particular circumstances in the Buddha's life, revealing some events in the long series of his previous existence as a bodhisattva. These stories magnify the glory of the Buddha and illustrate Buddhist doctrines and precepts by appropriate examples.

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