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Buddhist Animal Wisdom Stories

by Mark W. McGinnis
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Around the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables, or jataka tales, illuminating various human virtues and foibles—from kindness, cooperation, loyalty and self-discipline on the one hand to greed, pride, foolishness, and treachery on the other. Instead of populating these stories with people, they cast the animals of their immediate environment in the leading roles—which may have given the tales a universal appeal that helped them travel around the world, surfacing in the Middle East as Aesop's fables and in various other guises throughout East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia, and Europe. Author and painter Mark McGinnis has collected over forty of these hallowed popular tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original Buddhist messages firmly intact. Each story is accompanied with a beautifully rendered full-color painting, making this an equally attractive book for children and adults, whether Buddhist or not, who love fine stories about their fellow wise (and foolish) creatures.
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Publisher: Shambhala

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  • Release date: November 9, 2004

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  • ISBN: 9780834826014
  • File size: 2953 KB
  • Release date: November 9, 2004

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9780834826014
  • File size: 2953 KB
  • Release date: November 9, 2004

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Juvenile Fiction Juvenile Literature Mythology Folklore

Languages

English

Around the beginning of the common era, Indian Buddhists began to collect fables, or jataka tales, illuminating various human virtues and foibles—from kindness, cooperation, loyalty and self-discipline on the one hand to greed, pride, foolishness, and treachery on the other. Instead of populating these stories with people, they cast the animals of their immediate environment in the leading roles—which may have given the tales a universal appeal that helped them travel around the world, surfacing in the Middle East as Aesop's fables and in various other guises throughout East and Southeast Asia, Africa, Russia, and Europe. Author and painter Mark McGinnis has collected over forty of these hallowed popular tales and retold them in vividly poetic yet accessible language, their original Buddhist messages firmly intact. Each story is accompanied with a beautifully rendered full-color painting, making this an equally attractive book for children and adults, whether Buddhist or not, who love fine stories about their fellow wise (and foolish) creatures.
Expand title description text
Juvenile Fiction Juvenile Literature Mythology Folklore
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Shambhala

    Kindle Book
    Release date: November 9, 2004

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9780834826014
    File size: 2953 KB
    Release date: November 9, 2004

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9780834826014
    File size: 2953 KB
    Release date: November 9, 2004

  • Creators
  • Formats
    Kindle Book
    OverDrive Read
    EPUB ebook
  • Languages
    English
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