jataka+tales

=//**Jataka Tales**//=

//This article is about the art and culture of// "Jataka Tales"


 * Culture Studied:** Japan

Vocabulary: >
 * Jatakas refer to a voluminous body of literature native to India concerning the previous births (jāti) of the Buddha

=**Information**

= The Jatakas Tales, among the earliest literatures of Buddhism, are dated between 300 BC and 400 AD. They are 550 anecdotes and fables depicting the incarnations of Buddha. Several Theravada countries still have preformances of some longer Jatakas, usually on some lunar calendar holidays. Many tales are take place in Benares, now called Varanasi, a city in north central India on the Ganges River that is sacred for Hindus. **Stories** 


 * **Grannie's Blackie**
 * **How the Turtle Saved His Own Life**
 * **The Banyan Deer**
 * **The Crab and the Crane**
 * **The Elephant Girly-Face**
 * **The Foolish, Timid Rabbit**
 * **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**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**The Princes and the Water-Sprite**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**The Quarrel of the Quails**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**The Sandy Road**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**The Turtle Who Couldn't Stop Talking**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**The Wise and the Foolish Merchant**
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**Why the Owl Is Not King of the Birds ﻿ **