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

    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