Jataka Tales

He cited a story from the “Jataka Tales,” a body of South Asian literature concerning the prior incarnations of the Buddha in human and animal form.

Marionettes were used in the royal courts to dramatize Buddhist jataka tales, about the lives of Buddha.

I realised that the greatest short story writer in South Asia was Buddha, where the stories of his previous lives were recounted as Jataka tales.

In 1939 the Twenty Jataka Tales, a collection of traditional Indian children's stories she had retold, were published in Le Figaro.

Students of Buddhist history and literature know well the ancient fables about Buddha’s early incarnations, known as the Jataka Tales.