The wisdom of Buddhist legends

The book “The Wisdom of Buddhist Tales” includes chosen jataks – legends about the past lives of the Buddha. This is the brightest work of ancient Indian literature, which has reached our times as part of the most famous and full Buddhist Pali canon “Tititaka”. Jakaki includes diverse stories of a fabulous, moral-improving and spiritual nature, united together both by the general line of the author’s narrative and the personality of the narrator, in the role of which the Buddha Shakyamuni acts. As a unique work of ancient Indian culture, the book is of interest to a wide range of readers.

Translator
Paribok Andrey Vsevolodovich
Publisher
Olmamediagrupp/Enlightenment, 2012
Series
Gift publications. Wisdom
Genre
Epos and folklore