Directory of Jataka Tales Resources

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The Jatakas consist of over five hundred moralistic stories about the previous incarnations of the Buddha. Many of these stories may previously have been part of non-Buddhist Indian narrative traditions.

Resources in This Category

• A Jataka-Tale from the Tibetan

  http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-ENG/wen.htm
  Article by H. Wenzel, published in "The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland."

• Buddhist Tales

  http://www.buddhanet.net/bt_conts.htm
  Jataka stories of moral conduct and good behaviour.

• Jataka Tales of the Buddha (Part I)

  http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/kawasaki/bl135.html
  Four Jataka Tales: "Crossing the Wilderness", "The Traders of Seriva", "The Goat that Laughed and Wept", and "The Straw Worth More Than Gold".

• Jataka Tales of the Buddha (Part II)

  http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/kawasaki/bl138.html
  Three Jataka tales: "The Miserly Treasurer", "What's in a name?", and "The Queen's Necklace".

• Jataka Tales of the Buddha (Part III)

  http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/kawasaki/bl142.html
  Four Jataka tales: "The Fifth Precept", "A Good Friend", "The Sound the Hare Heard", and "The Great Monkey King".

• More Jataka Tales

  http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php3?author=babbitt&book=morejataka&story=_contents
  By Ellen C. Babbitt (1922), e-text from the Baldwin Project.

• Project Gutenberg: More Jataka Tales

  http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/7518
  Re-told by Ellen C. Babbitt.

• The Jatakas Tales

  http://www.mainlesson.com/display.php?author=babbitt&book=jataka&story=_contents
  Eighteen tales retold by Ellen C. Babbitt (1912); e-text from the Baldwin Project.

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