Jataka Tales

The Jātakas (Sanskrit जातक) (also known in other pronounced refer to a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births (jāti) of the Buddha.

In Theravada Buddhism, the Jatakas are a textual division of the Pali Canon, included in the Khuddaka Nikaya of the Sutta Pitaka. The term Jataka may also refer to a traditional commentary on this book.

The Jatakas were originally amongst the earliest Buddhist literature, with metrical analysis methods dating their average contents to around the 4th century BCE.The Mahāsāṃghika Caitika sects from the Āndhra region took the Jatakas as canonical literature, and are known to have rejected some of the Theravada Jatakas which dated past the time of King Ashoka.The Caitikas claimed that their own Jatakas represented the original collection before the Buddhist tradition split into various sects.

According to A.K. Warder, the Jatakas are the precursors to the various legendary biographies of the Buddha, which were composed at later dates.Although many Jatakas were written from an early period, which describe previous lives of the Buddha, very little biographical material about Gautama's own life has been recorded.

Stories

How the Turtle Saved His Own Life
The Banyan Deer
The Crab and the Crane
The Elephant Girly-Face
The Foolish, Timid Rabbit
The Great Ape
The King's White Elephant
The Measure of Rice
The Merchant of Seri
The Monkey and the Crocodile
The Ox Who Envied the Pig
The Ox Who Won the Forfeit
The Princes and the Water-Sprite
The Quarrel of the Quails
The Sandy Road
The Turtle Who Couldn't Stop Talking
The Wise and the Foolish Merchant
Why the Owl Is Not King of the Birds



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