Jataka

[ jah-tuh-kuh ]

noun

, Buddhism.

1. a collection of fables, many concerning former lives of the Buddha.

Example Sentences

And now for the old king's rendering of the Vessantara Jataka.

From Project Gutenberg

But one night she had said instead, "Now let me tell you a Jataka story!"

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After a while she made up her mind to relate a Jataka story that night.

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This is derived from the Karma Jataka, which was possibly the ultimate source of the whole series of tales.

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The fashion is universal among savages; it descends to the Buddha's jataka, or parables, to Æsop and La Fontaine.

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