* The Jataka Tales

Many of the stories and motifs found in the Jataka such as the Rabbit in the Moon of the Śaśajâtaka ( Jataka Tales: no. 316 ), are found in numerous other languages and media.

* Twenty Jataka Tales, amazon. com, Noor Inayat Khan, Inner Traditions, 1985

* Jataka Tales by Ellen C. Babbitt on holyeBooks. org

* Jataka Tales re-told by Ellen C. Babbitt with illustrations by Ellsworth Young

* Buddhist Birth Stories ( Jataka Tales ), T. W. Rhys Davids, London 1880, archive. org

Aesop's fables and the Indian tradition as represented by the Buddhist Jataka Tales and the Hindu Panchatantra share about a dozen tales in common although often widely differing in detail.

In 1939 her book, Twenty Jataka Tales ( ISBN 978-0892813230 ), inspired by the Jātaka tales of Buddhist tradition, was published in London.

* Buddhist Birth Stories ( Jataka Tales ), T. W. Rhys Davids, London 1880

* The Jataka Tales ( Buddhist literature, 5th century AD )

By the 15th century, four primary genres of poetry had emerged, namely pyo ( poems based on the Jataka Tales, linka ( metaphysical and religious poems ), mawgoun ( historical verses written as a hybrid of epic and ode ), and eigyin ( lullabies of the royal family ).

Kyigan Shingyi ( 1757 – 1807 ) wrote the Jataka Tales incorporating Burmese elements, including the myittaza ( Pali metta or love + Burmese sa or letter ), which are love letters and are important sources of first-hand accounts of the economic and social changes Burma was undergoing before colonialism.

Image: Bhutanese painted thanka of the Jataka Tales, 18th-19th Century, Phajoding Gonpa, Thimphu, Bhutan. jpg | Bhutanese painted thangka of the Jataka Tales, 18th-19th century, Phajoding Gonpa, Thimphu, Bhutan

The most recent book publications of the BPS are: The Life of Nyanatiloka Thera by Hellmuth Hecker and Bhikkhu Nyanatusita, Similes of the Buddha by Hellmuth Hecker, Buddhist Nuns by Mohan Wijayaratna and Jataka Tales of the Buddha by Ken and Visakha Kawasaki.

In Buddhism, Sharabha appears in Jataka Tales as a previous birth of the Buddha.

Lao people have also written many versions of the Jataka Tales.

The caves include paintings and sculptures considered to be masterpieces of Buddhist religious art ( which depict the Jataka tales ) as well as frescos which are reminiscent of the Sigiriya paintings in Sri Lanka .< ref >

They depict the Jataka tales that are stories of the Buddha's life in former existences as Bodhisattva.

* Buddhist Jataka stories are translated into Syriac and Arabic as Kalilag and Damnag.

* Mid-6th century – Buddhist Jataka stories are translated into Persian by order of the Zoroastrian king Khosrau.

The Tale of the Bull and the Ass and the linked Tale of the Merchant and his Wife are found in the frame stories of both the Jataka and the Nights.

There are other versions of the Ramayana, notably Ramavataram in Tamil, the Buddhist ( Dasaratha Jataka No. 461 ) and Jain in India, and also Cambodian, Indonesian, Philippine, Thai, Lao, Burmese and Malay versions of the tale.

Jataka stories are translated into Persian by order of the Zoroastrian king, Khosrau I of Persia.

* 8th century: Buddhist Jataka stories are translated in to Syriac and Arabic as Kalilag and Damnag.

Within the Pali tradition, there are also many apocryphal Jatakas of later composition ( some dated even to the 19th century ) but these are treated as a separate category of literature from the " Official " Jataka stories that have been more-or-less formally canonized from at least the 5th century — as attested to in ample epigraphic and archaeological evidence, such as extant illustrations in bas relief from ancient temple walls.

In Theravada countries several of the longer Jatakas such as Rathasena Jataka and Vessantara Jataka, are still performed in dance, theatre, and formal ( quasi-ritual ) recitation.

Major works in Pali are Jataka tales, Dhammapada, Atthakatha, and Mahavamsa.

The most frequent narrative subjects for paintings were or are: the Jataka stories, episodes from the life of the Buddha, the Buddhist heavens and hells, and scenes of daily life.

Although the site has been both damaged and looted, around 5000 square metres of wall paintings remained, These murals mostly depict Jataka stories, avadanas, and legends of the Buddha, and are an artistic representation in the tradition of the Theravada school of the Sarvastivadas.

The origins of this part of the festival are traditionally ascribed to a story of the Vessantara Jataka in which the Buddha in one of his past lives as Prince made a long journey and was presumed dead.

Palace scenes, scenes from the Jataka tales, and the signs of the Burmese Zodiac are popular designs and some vessels may be encrusted with glass mosaic or semi-precious stones in gold relief.

# Jataka Carya ( 1899 – 1930 ) and Iteevali Carya ( 1930 – 1950 ) are two unique works by Venkata Sastry.

The most frequent narrative subjects for paintings were or are: the Jataka stories, episodes from the life of the Buddha, the Buddhist heavens and hells, and scenes of daily life.

The stories mentioned in the Buddhist Jataka tales appear in a modified form throughout the Japanese collection of popular stories.

This is supposed to be a collection of 50 stories of the past lives of the Buddha, known to Buddhists as the Jataka.

Ben E. Perry ( compiler of the " Perry Index " of Aesop's fables ) has argued controversially that some of the Buddhist Jataka tales and some of the fables in the Panchatantra may have been influenced by similar Greek and Near Eastern ones.

200 BCE ), author of Sanskrit ( Hindu ) and Pali ( Buddhist ) animal fables in verse and prose, sometimes derived from Jataka tales.

Sanskrit ( see for example the Jatakamala ) and Tibetan Jataka stories tend to maintain the Buddhist morality of their Pali equivalents, but re-tellings of the stories in Persian and other languages sometimes contain significant amendments to suit their respective cultures.

In the Buddhist Jataka story known as Akiti Jataka there is a mention to Damila-rattha ( Tamil dynasty ).

Two well-known Jataka tales, Buddhist myths about previous incarnations of the Buddha, concern self-immolation.

This would have also seen introduction of the Dasaratha Jataka, an ancient Buddhist crystallisation of the story.

Many Buddhist texts like Manorathapurni, Kunala Jataka, Vinaya Pitaka, Samangalavilasini, Aruppa-Niddesa of Visuddhimagga, Mahavastu etc.

The narrative of the Yadava fratricidal war is also found in two Jataka tales of the Pali Buddhist canon: the Ghata Jataka and the Samkicca Jataka.