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Jataka

[ jah-tuh-kuh ]

noun

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


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Example Sentences

He cited a story from the “Jataka Tales,” a body of South Asian literature concerning the prior incarnations of the Buddha in human and animal form.

He cited a story from the “Jataka Tales,” a body of South Asian literature concerning the prior incarnations of the Buddha in human and animal form.

The venerable Kiribathgoda Gnanananda Thero, founder of the Mahamevnawa Buddhist Monastery in Sri Lanka, told me a story from the Jataka, an ancient book of poems about the Buddha's earlier lives.

From BBC

Marionettes were used in the royal courts to dramatize Buddhist jataka tales, about the lives of Buddha.

The Ajanta murals tell the Jataka stories of the lives of the Buddha in images of supreme elegance and grace.

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