1st Edition

Buddhist Birth Stories The Oldest Collection of Folk-Lore Extant

By T.W. Rhys Davids Copyright 2001
464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

This is Volume IX of sixteen in a series on Buddhism. Originally published in 1880, this study offers the first part of the oldest collection of folk-lore, the Jataka Tales. Translated from Pali.

Translator's Introduction, Part I The Book of Birth Stories and their Migration to the West Part II The Birth Stories in India, The Ceylon Compiler's Introduction called the Nidana Katha, The Birth Stories.

Biography

T.W. Rhys Davids