Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of a genre of Buddhist texts containing stories about a former birth of Gautama Buddha.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A nativity; birth-story; specifically, an account of the life of Buddha in one of his successive human existences.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The great Indian collection of symbolic stories known as Jataka
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes Charles Madison Curry 1906
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Our Pampango variant appears to me to represent a form even older than the "Jataka," but at the same time
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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The chief difference between our Pampango variant and the "Jataka," it will be seen, is in the prominent rôle played by the wife in the latter.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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The good luck coming to the hero from the exchange of dead animals suggests a distant basic connection between our story and the "Jataka," although it must be admitted that the idea could occur independently to many different peoples.
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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In the Cambridge translation of this "Jataka," the verse reply of the woman is rendered thus: --
Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler
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Ellen Babbit's retelling of Jataka tales (Appanna Jataka, or Appanaka Jataka, tale no.
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Ellen Babbit's retelling of Jataka tales (Appanna Jataka, or Appanaka Jataka, tale no.
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His Holiness continues to read from the Jataka tales that cite incidents in the former lives of the Buddha, when he was still a bodhisattva, that retain a moral for today.
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His Holiness gives parting advice to the audience of ordained and lay Buddhists from Tibet and around the world and then concludes the oral transmission of the Jataka
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Then he recounted the Jataka tale that follows the story told in 2006.
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