Les Pièces d'Or: Un Conte de Jataka

Title

en_US Les Pièces d'Or: Un Conte de Jataka

en_US Les Contes de Jataka

en_US Dh22F

Description

en_US Language note: French

en_US Original language: eng

en_US Traduit de l'anglais par Gisèle Cervisi et al

Creator

en_US Jan, Emily See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Harman, Michael

Date

2016-01-25T19:37:57Z

en_US 2004-12

en_US 2001

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:37:57Z

Date Issued

en_US 2001

Abstract

en_US This is the French version of Pieces of Gold from the same year. As I mention there, it presents yet another style for Dharma's Jataka Tales Series. The emphasis here lies on elements like dimensionality, fluidity, and contour. Two rich brothers are traveling. The younger substitutes a bag of gravel for his brother's sack of gold coins. The younger brother thinks then that he is throwing the bag of gravel overboard when he appears to stumble and drop it. It is really the bag of coins that goes overboard; the river goddess watches over it and has a big fish swallow it. When the younger brother at home discovers his mistake, he is disconsolate. The big fish is caught and up for sale; it goes to the older brother. His wife cuts it open and finds the sack, and he recognizes it as his. The river goddess hovers in his home and lets him know that this is a reward for the generosity he showed in feeding the fish of the Ganges. Against her advice, the older brother gives his younger brother half of the money; the latter, filled with shame for his selfish and dishonest action, resolves to change his ways and to practice generosity from that time on.

Identifier

en_US 0898003156

en_US 5361 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80905

Language

en_US fre

Publisher

en_US Dharma Publishing

en_US Berkeley, CA

Subject

en_US BQ1462.F8 P54 2001 See all items with this value

en_US Jatakas See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole