Jataka Tales: Volume 1: Folk Tales of the Buddha's Previous Lives Charles Forster founder of the Atlantis School

founder of the Atlantis School for Gifted Youngsters

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Jataka Tales: Volume 1: Folk Tales of the Buddha's Previous Lives Charles Forster founder of the Atlantis SchoolThe Jataka Tales are the Buddhist equivalent of Aesop's Fables. They are morality stories. In the Buddhist cultures of that time, these were the stories that children grew up hearing. They were the popular entertainment. Families would gather together in the evening after the day's work was done and share these tales. And it is from these stories that people learned about the standards of conduct for followers of the Buddha. Like Aesop's Fables, the