The Banyan Deer
Subtitle: a parable of courage and compassion
By: by Rafe Martin ; illustrated by Richard Wehrman
Contributors: Wehrman, Richard, ill
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 44
Notes: The Banyan Deer is a recreation of the traditional Buddhist Nigrodhamiga-jataka, a story of one of the Buddha's earlier lifetimes, or "births." The original tale is No. 12 in the Pali Jataka, a collection of 550 such stories.