Jatakamala: Stories from the Buddha's Previous Births

by Arya Sura

The Jatakamala is a famous work in both sacred Buddhist and classical Sanskrit literature. It recounts thirty-four stories of the Buddha's previous births, and his good deeds in those earlier incarnations as a god, man or an animal. Written in elegant Sanskrit prose and verse in the fourth century A.D., these tales were later translated into Chinese and Tibetan. Several feature in the Ajanta cave paintings. Their colourful backgrounds range from a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8172234554
• ISBN13: 9788172234553
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 7.6"