Jakata or Stories of the Buddha's Former Births

The Jataka #1-6

by E.B. Cowell (Editor)

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

Genres: Buddhism

1953 pages, Hardcover

First published January 23, 401

About the author

Edward Byles Cowell FBA, published as E.B. Cowell, was the first professor of Sanskrit at Cambridge University and a noted translator of Persian poetry.

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