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Jataka Stories in Theravada Buddhism - Narrating the Bodhisatta Path (Paperback)
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Jataka Stories in Theravada Buddhism - Narrating the Bodhisatta Path (Paperback)
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Jataka stories (stories about the previous births of the Buddha)
are very popular in Theravada Buddhist countries, where they are
found in both canonical texts and later compositions and
collections, and are commonly used in sermons, children's books,
plays, poetry, temple illustrations, rituals and festivals. Whilst
at first glance many of the stories look like common fables or
folktales, Buddhist tradition tells us that the stories illustrate
the gradual path to perfection exemplified by the Buddha in his
previous births, when he was a bodhisatta (buddha-to-be). Jataka
stories have had a long and colourful history, closely intertwined
with the development of doctrines about the Buddha, the path to
buddhahood, and how Buddhists should behave now the Buddha is no
more. This book explores the shifting role of the stories in
Buddhist doctrine, practice, and creative expression, finally
placing this integral Buddhist genre back in the centre of
scholarly understandings of the religion.
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