Stories of the Buddha
Subtitle: being selections from the Jataka
By: translated and edited by Caroline A.F. Rhys Davids.
Contributors: Davids, Caroline A. F. Rhys 1857-1942.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; pli
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Gautama Buddha -- Pre-existence
Description: One of the most important texts in the literature of Buddhism, containing 47 stories celebrating the previous lives of the Buddha, each offering fascinating insights into the mind and heart of Buddhism. Translated and edited by a distinguished Western scholar of Buddhism. --Book Jacket.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : F.A. Stokes Co., 1929.